Places

Artists from Paris

505 painters in the Artifact World Gallery corpus were born in Paris, France (1460–1985), across 6,734 public-domain works. Their work spans Academic Art, Barbizon school, Neoclassicism and more. Ranked by fame — the most-recognized names first, each linking to their works and life dates.

Why Paris mattered

  1. 1860–1886

    Birth of Impressionism

    Impressionism Rewald, The History of Impressionism (MoMA, 1946)

  2. 1886–1905

    Post-Impressionist ferment from Montmartre to the Salon des Indépendants

    Post-Impressionism Rewald, Post-Impressionism: From van Gogh to Gauguin (MoMA, 1956)

  3. 1905–1940

    Capital of the avant-garde

    Avant-garde Met Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The School of Paris

Representative works

Movements from Paris

Artists