French painting

Impressionism: La Route de Versailles a Louveciennes by Camille Pissarro.

De vie et de lumière

French Painting is considered among those most important and has an interesting history. The first manifestations of French painting are given in the prehistoric art and with the Roman epoch with some murals. In the Middle Age there are also some important murals and Gothic stained glasses; in the Renaissance Italian models are followed. It will be until Century XVII, with Nicolas Poussin like its best exposing and Claude Lorrain, that French Baroque painting reaches an important place. Century XVIII brought the Rococo, and it is Century XIX, precisely, that of the great French painting. In Century XX there also are important demonstrations but without reaching the splendor and the fame of the previous years.

## Contents

* 1 Schools and movements
* 2 Most famous painters
* 3 Petite gallerie
* 4 See also
* 5 External links

## Schools and movements[edit]

Romanticism, Le Derby d'Epsom by Jean Louis Théodore Géricault.

Barbizon School, Cows Returning from the Mountainside by Thèodore Rousseau.

* Baroque
* Rococo
* Academic Art
* Neoclassical
* Romanticism
* Realism
* Academic Art
* Barbizon School
* Impressionism
* Pointillism
* Neo-Impressionism or Post-Impressionism
* Fauvism
* Cubism
* École de Paris A term to designate a group of artists like: Andre Lhote (1885 - 1962), Juan Gris (1887 - 1927), Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) and Maurice Boitel (1919 - 2007).
* Lyrical Abstraction
* Postmodernism

Postmodernism: Claude Verlinde.

Impressionism, Gustave Caillebotte, Oarsman in a Top Hat, 1877–78.

## Most famous painters[edit]

Francis I, Jean Clouet.

Olympia, Manet.

La jeune rieuse, Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

* Jean Clouet
* Jean Le Clerc
* Claude Deruet
* Nicolas Poussin
* Claude Lorrain
* Eustache Lesueur
* Charles Le Brun
* Hyacinthe Rigaud
* Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
* Jean-Antoine Watteau
* François Boucher
* Joseph Marie Vien
* Jean-Honoré Fragonard
* Jacques-Louis David
* Nicholas Monsiau
* François Gérard
* Antoine Jean Gros
* Jean Dominique Ingres
* Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
* Charles de Steuben
* Théodore Géricault
* Camille Corot
* Eugene Delacroix
* Auguste Mayer
* Theodore Rousseau
* Jean-François Millet
* Theodore Chasseriau
* Gustave Courbet
* Alexandre Cabanel
* Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
* Gustave Boulanger
* Jean-Leon Gerome
* Eugene Boudin
* Adolphe William Bouguereau

* Camille Pissarro
* Edouard Manet
* Edgar Degas
* Henri Fantin Latour
* Jules Joseph Lefebvre
* Pierre-Auguste Cot
* Jean-Paul Laurens
* Paul Cezanne
* Claude Monet
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir
* Armand Guillaumin
* Jean-Frédéric Bazille
* Benjamin Constant
* Paul Gauguin
* Gustave Caillebotte
* Henri Gervex
* Maximilien Luce
* Georges Pierre Seurat
* Paul Signac
* Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
* Pierre Bonnard
* Henri Matisse
* Raoul Dufy
* André Derain
* Fernand Léger
* Georges Braque
* Jean Metzinger
* Robert Delaunay
* André Lhote
* Marc Chagall
* Maurice Boitel
* Georges Mathieu
* Jean Miotte
* Claude Verlinde

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François Gérard, Portrait of Madame Récamier, 1805.

Antoine Jean Gros by François Gérard, 1790.

Alfred Sisley (born in Paris), Aux Bords de la Seine, 1887.

## Petite gallerie[edit]

* Neoclassical:
Madame Récamier, Jacques-Louis David

* Romanticism:
Niches area in the palace of the Sultans of Meknes, Eugene Delacroix

* Realism:
Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Self-Portrait

* Pointillism:
La Calanque, Paul Signac

* Fauvism:
Open Window, Henri Matisse

* École de Paris:
Bateau-Mouche with Bouquet, Marc Chagall

* Lyrical Abstraction:
Simultaneous Contrasts-Sun and Moon, Robert Delaunay

* Postmodernism:
Marottes, Claude Verlinde

* Academic Art, Cafe Scene in Paris, Henri Gervex.

* Neoclassical, Mme Moitessier, Jean Dominique Ingres

* Neoclassical, Madame de Verninac, Jacques-Louis David

* Realism, Bonjour Monsieur Courbet, Gustave Courbet

* Impressionism, The Star,
Edgar Degas

* Impressionism, The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter, Camille Pissarro

* Post-Impressionism, Paul Alexis Lé um Manuscrito a Zola, Paul Cezanne

* Fauvism, The Window, Henri Matisse

Impressionism: Monet painting in his garden in Argenteuil, Renoir.

## See also[edit]

Return of Odysseus (Early 1800's) by Nicholas Monsiau (history painter).

* National painting
* Gallery of French Masterpieces
* Famous French paintings
* French Still Life Painting
* Painting Galleries
* Prehistoric painting

Poppies, 1914 by Pierre Bonnard.

Baroque: Nicolas Poussin, The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus.

Gustave Boulanger, The Slave Market, 1886.

François-Pierre-Bernard Barry, The Caravan, Egypt, 1863.

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), Harem Women Feeding Pigeons in a Courtyard.

## External links[edit]

Delacroix, La liberte guidant le peuple.

* FRENCH PAINTING OF THE 19TH CENTURY
* Famous French Artists
* French Painting Originally Published Early 1900's
* List of French artists

In French:

* Peinture française Musée du Louvre.
* Salon des Artistes Français
* Salon des Indépendants
* La peinture française L'histoire de la peinture.

Renoir, Jean-Frédéric Bazille, 1867.

Still Life \- The Engagement by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1869.

Andre Derain, Hungerford Bridge at Charing Cross, 1906.