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Georges Laporte Documented profileFrance
Painter, lithographer and illustrator, Georges-Charles Laporte developed a body of work in which seascape painting sits alongside a substantial body of illustration, notably for text…
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André Hambourg Documented profileFrance
The French painter, illustrator and lithographer André Hambourg brought together painting, printmaking and the printed image throughout his career. Born and died in Paris, he first s…
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Raphaël Collin Documented profileFrance
The French painter and illustrator Raphaël Collin (Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin) worked across genre painting, the nude, portraiture, decorative composition and illustration. He exhib…
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Pierre Gastaud Documented profileFrance
The French painter, lithographer and sculptor Pierre Gastaud developed an artistic practice that Gérald Schurr characterises as abstract landscape painting, at times in violent tones…
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Bernard Moninot Documented profileFrance
Born in 1949 in Le Fay, in Saône-et-Loire, Bernard Moninot develops a practice that engages with traces, shadows and drawing. From 1992, in the series Ombres portées, forms in enamel…
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Gustave Jean Jacquet Documented profileFrance
The French painter Gustave Jacquet, born in 1846 and died in 1909, is associated with female portraiture and genre scenes, particularly those in the taste of the eighteenth century.…
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Pierre Charles Comte Documented profileFrance
The painting of Pierre-Charles Comte focuses in particular on the history of the Valois: his historical scenes depict episodes and figures from this period, including Henry III and t…
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Pierre Carrier-Belleuse Documented profileFrance
The French painter Pierre Carrier-Belleuse is particularly known for his portraits of Opéra dancers, his panoramas and his works created on the Opal Coast. The son of the sculptor Al…
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Adrien Manglard Documented profileFrance
A landscape and marine painter, Adrien Manglard carried out most of his work in Italy, where he settled in his youth and spent nearly fifty years. His training began with Adriaen van…
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Natalia Goncharova Documented profileFrance
Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova (1881–1962), also known as Natalia Goncharova and Nathalie Gontcharova, pursued a path through several strands of modern Russian painting and also worke…
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Pierre Soulages Documented profileFrance
French painter and printmaker Pierre Soulages, born in Rodez in 1919, makes the light arising from the surface states of black a major focus of his pictorial research. At eighteen, h…
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Pierre Ernest Prins Documented profileFrance
French painter, printmaker and sculptor Pierre Prins (1838–1913) pursued an artistic practice whose different fields are also reflected in his career: training in drawing, learning t…
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Pol Bury Documented profileBelgium · France
Pol Bury (1922–2005), a Belgian artist, practised painting and sculpture, and created jewellery. A watercolour entitled Untitled, dated 1950, measures 465 × 290 mm; it is signed and…
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour Documented profileFrance
The 18th-century French painter and pastellist Maurice-Quentin de La Tour devotes most of his activity to pastel portraiture. Born and died in Saint-Quentin, in 1704 and 1788, he pur…
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Charles François Nivard Documented profileFrance
The French painter Charles-François Nivard, born in Nancy in 1739 and deceased in Versailles in 1821, explored several areas of landscape painting: the countryside, village scenes, a…
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Pierre II Mignard Documented profileFrance
The French painter and architect Pierre II Mignard, known as the Chevalier Mignard, belonged to a family of artists. Born in Avignon in 1640, he was the eldest son of Nicolas Mignard…
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Louis Tinayre Documented profileFrance
The career of Louis Tinayre brings together drawings and photographs made on expeditions, large-scale panoramic displays and mural painting. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 14 March 186…
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Charles-Antoine Coypel Documented profileFrance
A painter, playwright and art critic, Charles Antoine Coypel — also known as Charles Coypel — belonged to a family of Parisian painters: he was the son of Antoine Coypel and the gran…
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Abel Lauvray Documented profileFrance
After studying law at his family’s request, Abel Lauvray enrolled at Cormon’s studio in Paris. In 1893, he accompanied Claude Monet on the Seine aboard his studio boat, which the pai…
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Yi Eungro Documented profileFrance · South Korea
Lee Ungno’s practice develops at the intersection of ink painting and calligraphy, which informs his creative process through both signs and formal elements. In 1920, he learns the f…
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Marie Vassilieff Documented profileFrance
The painter and theatre designer Marie Vassilieff—also known as Maria Ivanovna Vassilieva—was born in Smolensk in 1884 and died in 1957. Her career brings together painting, decorati…
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Constant-Joseph Desbordes Documented profileFrance
A portraitist and genre painter, Constant Joseph Desbordes is associated with a presumed portrait of Auguste Barre de Saint-Fare, a lieutenant in the lancers of the Royal Guard. Date…
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Gustave Cariot Documented profileFrance
Born in Paris on 28 June 1872, Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot is described as a French painter associated with the Pointillist movement. His work includes landscapes of Brittany and t…
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Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé Documented profileFrance
Ivan Choultsé’s painting focuses on natural motifs, with water and snow given particular prominence; winter landscapes, often Swiss, are especially frequent. Descriptions of his work…
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Chaïm Soutine Documented profileFrance
Chaïm Soutine, also known as Khaïm Solomonovitch Sutin, is a Belarusian painter who emigrated to France. In 1907, in Minsk, he attended drawing classes with Michel Kikoïne under M. K…
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Paul Saïn Documented profileFrance
Born and died in Avignon, the painter Paul Saïn grounds his work in landscape: his stays in Corsica notably fostered a body of rural views, often sketched on small panels, in a natur…
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Charles Bouchez Documented profileFrance
French painter who lived from 1811 to 1882, Charles Bouchez is associated, in an auction listing, with a work entitled “Départ en barque”. This oil on canvas, measuring 40 × 56 cm, i…
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Joseph Garibaldi Documented profileFrance
The French painter Joseph Garibaldi, born and deceased in Marseille, anchors a significant part of his work in the landscapes and ports of the Provençal coast. He paints regularly in…
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Eugène Cottin Documented profileFrance
The French painter and caricaturist Eugène Cottin (1841–1902) works in several fields: painting, humorous drawing for the press and book illustration. He trains at the École des beau…
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Cyprien Gaillard Documented profileFrance
French artist Cyprien Gaillard, born in Paris in 1980, works across photography, sculpture, video and performance. His work engages with the paradoxes of contemporary societies and t…
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Louis Marcoussis Documented profileFrance · Poland
Louis Marcoussis’s work spans Cubist painting, printmaking and illustration. His subjects range from still lifes and musical instruments to portraits, views of Paris and Breton lands…
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Bernard Cathelin Documented profileFrance
The French painter, lithographer and illustrator Bernard Robert André Cathelin made colour the organizing principle of his work: his compositions bring colours and tones together in…
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Henri Rousseau Documented profileFrance
A self-taught artist, Henri Rousseau taught himself to paint without formal academic art training and began his career as a painter in 1872. After working as a clerk to a bailiff, he…
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Henri Alphonse Barnoin Documented profileFrance
Henri Alphonse Barnoin, a French painter and lithographer born in Paris in 1882, depicts Breton figures in traditional dress, fishermen, port and market scenes, processions, and rock…
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Victor Gilbert Documented profileFrance
The French painter Victor Gabriel Gilbert, born in Paris in 1847, made his debut at the Salon des artistes français with still lifes. In 1873, he presented Avant le bal and Les apprê…
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Marie Joseph Orgiazzi Documented profileFrance
In an auction catalogue, Marie Joseph Orgiazzi is identified as having lived from 1945 to 1998 and is represented by a work entitled « A Federico Lorca ou le sang du poète ». Describ…
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Odilon Roche Documented profileFrance
French painter Odilon Roche, born in 1868 and died in 1947, is associated with Turnerinnen, a watercolour over pencil, signed lower right, measuring 26 × 20 cm and framed. This work…
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Tran Phuc Duyen Documented profileFrance · Vietnam
Trần Phúc Duyên (1923–1993), a Vietnamese artist born in Hanoi, worked as a lacquer artist in Hanoi; his studio received private commissions. Views of Vietnam occupy an important pla…
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Max Schoendorff Documented profileFrance
A painter, printmaker, illustrator and stage designer, as well as an author and publisher, Max Schoendorff works across the visual arts, publishing and performance. Born and died in…
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Georges Roudneff Documented profileGermany · France
Born in 1933 in Faymoreau, in the Vendée, Georges Roudneff spends his childhood in Nice, in a family in which his mother was Ukrainian and his father came from an old Russian family,…
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Marcel Leprin Documented profileFrance
From 1926, his travels through the French countryside gave rise to a body of landscapes and urban views. Meaux and Avallon are among the places mentioned, followed in 1927 by Poitier…
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Marcel Wibault Documented profileFrance
Marcel Wibault’s painting spans several fields: alpine landscapes, the work on the Mont Blanc Tunnel, rocks and, later, portraits of children and scenes of everyday life. Born in Bes…
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Henri-Edmond Cross Documented profileFrance
Henri-Edmond Cross, the artist name of Henri Edmond Joseph Delacroix, was born in Douai in 1856 and died in Le Lavandou in 1910. He trained in Lille with Carolus-Duran and Alphonse C…
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Nathalie Chabrier Documented profileFrance
The French painter, lithographer and illustrator Nathalie Chabrier, born in Paris in 1932, initially works in stained glass, tapestry, ceramics and mural painting. This practice acro…
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Louis Latapie Documented profileFrance
Louis Latapie, a French painter and printmaker born in Toulouse in 1891 and who died in Avignon in 1972, developed a body of work in which still lifes and female nudes feature in a s…
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Lucien Adrion Documented profileFrance
Painter and watercolorist Lucien Philippe Adrion (1889–1953), born in Strasbourg and died in Paris, initially pursues a professional career in drawing. He begins as a technical draft…
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Marcel Gromaire Documented profileFrance
The French painter and decorator Marcel Gromaire (1892–1971) developed a practice spanning painting, decoration, tapestry and printmaking. After studying law, he abandoned the legal…
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Maurice Denis Documented profileFrance
In 1888, he studied at the École des beaux-arts and the Académie Julian, but soon left the former. In an article-manifesto published in August 1890, he set out the artistic ideas of…
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Claude Venard Documented profileFrance
A French painter born in Paris in 1913 and deceased in 1999, Claude Venard is associated with post-Cubism and still life. Sources describe a personal post-Cubist style, built with a…
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Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer Documented profileFrance
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer’s flower painting belongs both to still life and to the decorative arts: his compositions are also known through prints and tapestry cartoons. Fleurs, fruits e…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026