List of French engravers

This is a chronological list of French engravers.

## Renaissance

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Apocalypse (1550–1560), Jean Duvet

* Geoffroy Tory (1480–1533), humanist and engraver
* Jean Rabel (1545–1603), painter and engraver
* Jean Duvet (c. 1485–c. 1570), engraver
* Jean Cousin the Younger (1490–1561), painter, engraver, sculptor
* Thomas de Leu (1560–1612), engraver
* Jacques Bellange (1575–1616), engraver
* Daniel Rabel (1578–1637), painter and engraver

## 17th-century

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* François Perrier (1590–1650), painter and engraver
* Jacques Callot (1592–1635), engraver
* Claude Mellan (1598–1688), painter, draughtsman and engraver
* Balthasar Moncornet (1600–1668), painter and engraver
* Abraham Bosse (1602–1676), engraver
* Jean Varin (1604–1672), sculptor, engraver, medallist
* Nicolas Robert (1610–1684), miniaturist and engraver
* François Chauveau (1613–1676), draughtsman, engraver and painter
* Michel Dorigny (1617–1663), painter and engraver
* Jean Le Pautre (1618–1682), draughtsman and engraver
* Jean Marot (1619–1679), draughtsman and engraver
* Albert Flamen (1620–1674), engraver
* Israël Silvestre (1621–1691), engraver
* Robert Nanteuil (1623–1678), engraver, draughtsman and pastelist
* François de Poilly (1623-1693), engraver
* Gabriel Perelle (1604–1677), engraver
* Gérard Audran (1640–1703), engraver
* Jean Mauger (1648–1712), medallist and engraver on copperplate
* Gérard Edelinck (1649–1707), engraver
* Jacques Restout (1650–1701), painter
* Louis Dorigny (1654–1742), painter and engraver
* Eustache Restout (1655–1743), architect, engraver and painter

## 18th-century

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* Nicolas Dorigny (1658–1746), painter and engraver
* Pierre Drevet (1664–1738), engraver
* Étienne Jehandier Desrochers (1668–1741), engraver
* François Chéreau (1680-1729), engraver
* Charles Dupuis (1685–1742), engraver
* Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755), painter and engraver
* Jacques Chéreau (1688–1776), engraver and publisher
* Anne Claude Philippe de Tubieres de Grimoard de Pestels de Levis, Comte de Caylus (1692–1765)
* Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774), bookseller and engraver
* Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (1695–1771), engraver
* Pierre Imbert Drevet (1697–1739), engraver
* Hubert-Francois Bourguignon Gravelot (1699–1773), engraver
* Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774), architect and engraver
* François Boucher (1703–1770), painter, engraver
* Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (1707–1783), engraver
* Noël Hallé (1711–1781), painter and engraver
* Pierre-Simon Fournier (1712–1768), engraver
* Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714–1789), painter, engraver, draughtsman
* Jean-Joseph Balechou (1715–1765), engraver
* Jacques Guay (1715–1787), engraver
* Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715–1790), engraver and draughtsman
* Joseph-Marie Vien (1716–1809), painter, draughtsman and engraver
* Carmontelle (1717–1806), painter, draughtsman, engraver
* Claude-Henri Watelet (1718–1786)
* Étienne Ficquet (1719–1794), engraver
* Charles Eisen (1720–1778), painter and engraver
* Charles Germain de Saint Aubin (1721–1786), engraver
* Pierre-François Basan (1723–1797), engraver
* Jacques Aliamet (1726–1788), engraver
* Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731–1797), engraver
* Hubert Robert (1733–1808), painter, engraver
* Benoît-Louis Prévost (1735 or 1747–1804), engraver
* Jean-Pierre Houël (1735–1813), engraver, draughtsman and painter
* Simon Charles Miger (1736–1828), engraver
* Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736–1810), engraver
* Pierre-François Laurent (1739-1809), engraver
* Jean-Michel Moreau (1741–1814), engraver
* François-Rolland Elluin (1745–1810), engraver
* Gérard van Spaendonck (1746–1822), painter and engraver
* Vivant Denon (1747–1825), diplomat and administrator, writer and engraver
* Augustin Dupré (1748–1833), medallist and engraver
* Charles Eschard (1748–1810), painter, draughtsman and engraver
* P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel (c. 1750–?), draughtsman and engraver
* Michel-François Dandré-Bardon (1752–1809), painter, draughtsman and engraver
* Philibert-Louis Debucourt (1755–1832), painter and engraver
* Charles Clément Balvay (1756–1822), engraver
* François-Nicolas Martinet (c. 1760–1800), engineer and engraver

## 19th-century (Romanticism and Impressionism)

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The Creation of Light, Gustave Doré

* Jean Achard (1807–1884), painter and engraver
* Théodore Basset de Jolimont (1787-1854)
* Louis Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), painter, draughtsman and engraver
* Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761–1824), painter, engraver
* Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846), architect, engraver and painter
* Pierre Audouin (1768–1822), engraver
* Louis-François Lejeune (1775–1848), painter and engraver
* Pierre Bouillon (1776–1831), engraver and painter
* Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777–1837), painter, draughtsman and engraver
* Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers (1779–1857), engraver
* Henri Laurent (1779-1844), engraver
* Théodore Richomme (1785–1849), engraver
* Auguste-François Michaut (1785–1849), engraver, medallist, sculptor
* François Forster (1790–1872), engraver
* Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), painter and engraver
* Léon Cogniet (1794–1880), painter, portraitist and lithographer
* Louis-Henri Brévière (1797–1869), engraver
* Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont (1797–1892), engraver and draughtsman
* Charles Philipon (1800–1862), draughtsman, lithographer, journalist and editor
* Achille Devéria (1800–1857), painter, engraver
* Bernard-Romain Julien (1802–1871), lithographer
* Tony Johannot (1803–1852), engraver, illustrator and painter
* Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (Grandville), (1803–1847), engraver
* Auguste Raffet (1804–1860), draughtsman and engraver
* Eugène Isabey (1804–1886), painter, watercolorist and lithographer
* Espérance Langlois (1805–1864), painter and engraver
* Louis Godefroy Jadin (1805–1882), animal and landscape painter
* Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), painter, engraver
* Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), lithographer, draughtsman, illustrator and painter
* Polyclès Langlois (1813–1872), engraver, draughtsman and painter
* Charles Blanc (1813–1882), historian, art critic and engraver
* Charles Jacque (1813–1894), animal painter and engraver
* Charles Marville (1816–1879), painter, engraver, photographer
* Alphonse Leroy (1820–1902), engraver
* Charles Meryon (1821–1868), engraver
* Hector Giacomelli (1822–1904), painter, watercolorist, illustrator and engraver
* François Chifflart (1825–1901), painter and draughtsman
* Pierre-Auguste Lamy (1827–1880), engraver, lithographer and watercolorist
* Léopold Flameng (1831–1911), engraver, illustrator and painter
* Gustave Doré (1832–1883), engraver
* Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painter, engraver, sculptor and photographer
* James Tissot (1836–1902), painter and etcher
* Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), painter and lithographer
* Jules Chéret (1836–1932), painter, poster artist and lithographer
* Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), painter and engraver
* Adolphe Lalauze (1838–1905), illustrator, painter and engraver
* Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839–1909), engraver
* Odilon Redon (1840–1916), painter, engraver and pastelist
* Fortuné Méaulle (1844–1901), wood-engraver and writer
* Alfred Johannot (1800–1836), engraver and painter

## 19th-century (Impression and Fauvism)

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December (1895), wood engraving by Eugène Grasset

* Henri Thiriat (1843–1926), engraver
* Léon Barillot (1844–1929), engraver and painter
* Victor Gustave Lhuillier (1844–1889), engraver and etcher
* Eugène Grasset (1845–1917), engraver, poster artist and decorator
* Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), painter, draughtsman, watercolorist, and engraver
* Eugène Carrière (1849–1906), painter and lithographer
* Auguste-Louis Lepère (1849–1918), painter and engraver
* Jean-Louis Forain (1852–1931), painter, illustrator and engraver
* Adolphe Willette (1857–1926), illustrator, caricaturist and engraver
* Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923), painter, draughtsman and lithographer
* George Auriol (1863–1938), journalist, poet, painter and engraver
* Henri Bellery-Desfontaines (1867–1909), painter, illustrator, poster artist, lithographer, draughtsman, architect and engraver
* Edgar Chahine (1874–1947), painter, illustrator and engraver
* Charles Dufresne (1876–1938), painter, engraver and decorator

## 20th-century (before World War II)

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Allan Österlind , Danseuse de flamenco, eau-forte et aquatinte sur papier

* Abel Mignon (1861–1936), engraver
* Allan Österlind (1855–1938), painter and engraver
* Malo-Renault (1870–1938) illustrator, color engraver and pastelist
* Jacques Villon (1875–1963), painter and engraver
* Adolphe Beaufrère (1876–1960), painter and engraver
* Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), painter, draughtsman, illustrator, ceramist, decorator and engraver
* Henry Cheffer (1880–1957), painter and engraver
* Raoul Serres (1881–1971), illustrator and engraver
* Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter and engraver
* Jean Metzinger (1883–1956), painter, engraver

## 20th-century (post-World War II)

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* Henri-Georges Adam (1904–1967), engraver and sculptor
* Pierre Albuisson (1952–), draughtsman and engraver
* Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), sculptor, photographer, engraver
* Jean Bertholle (1909–1996), painter
* Érik Desmazières (1948-), engraver
* Johnny Friedlaender (1912–1992), painter and engraver
* Henri Goetz (1909–1989), painter and engraver
* Cécile Guillame (1933–2004), engraver
* Max Leognany (1913–1994), painter, engraver, sculptor
* Ève Luquet (1954–), designer and engraver
* Jeanne Malivel (1895–1926), decorator and engraver
* Alfred Manessier (1911–1993), painter
* Gen Paul (1898–1975), painter, engraver
* René Quillivic [fr] (1925–2016), sculptor and engraver
* Alfred-Georges Regner (1902–1987), painter and engraver
* Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921–), painter, engraver and sculptor
* Raoul Ubac (1910–1985), painter
* Zao Wou-Ki (1921–2013), photographer, calligrapher, sculptor, engraver

## See also

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* Category:French engravers
* List of French painters
* List of French artists

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## References

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