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The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
Deux grisettes et deux soldats by Constantin Guys. In the first quarter of the 19th century, grisette also came to refer more specifically to the independent young women, often working as seamstresses or milliner's assistants, who frequented bohemian artistic and cultural venues in Paris.
Tricoteuse (French pronunciation: [tʁikɔtøz]) is French for a knitting woman.The term is most often used in its historical sense as a nickname for the women in the French Revolution who sat in the gallery supporting the left-wing politicians in the National Convention, attended the meetings in the Jacobin club, the hearings of the Revolutionary Tribunal, and sat beside the guillotine during ...
'Portrait of the Young Lady on Fire') is a 2019 French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma, starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel. Set in France in the late 18th century, the film tells the story of a brief affair between two young women: an aristocrat and a painter commissioned to paint her portrait. It ...
Marie-Léontine Bordes-Pène (1858–1924), pianist specializing in French composers; Hélène Boschi (1917–1990), French-Swiss pianist and educator; Magdeleine Boucherit Le Faure (1879–1960), pianist, composer and educator; Brigitte Bouthinon-Dumas (born 1947), pianist, music educator and writer; Emma Boynet (1891–1974), classical pianist
Lidiya Masterkova (1927–2008), Russian-born French painter; Catherine Matausch (born 1960), French journalist and painter; Marie-Alexandrine Mathieu (1838–1908), artist known for her etchings; Caroline de Maupéou (1836–1915), painter; Constance Mayer (1775–1821), painter; Caroline Mesquita (born 1989), sculptor; Victorine Meurent (1844 ...
As a young woman she became an actress and used the stage name "Raymonde de Laroche". She was inspired by Wilbur Wright 's 1908 demonstrations of powered flight in Paris and was personally acquainted with several aviators, including artist-turned-aviator Léon Delagrange , who was reputed to be the father of her son André.
French Language and Literature. Authors • Lit categories: French literary history Medieval 16th century • 17th century 18th century • 19th century