Top 10 Famous French Artists and Painters

1. Edouard Manet - Controversial and Independent Author

Featured images: Édouard Manet – Olympia, 1863.

2. Claude Monet - Impressions of Nature

Featured image: Claude Monet – Impression, Sunrise, 1872. Captions, via Creative Commons

3.Auguste Renoir - Great Master of Impressionism

Featured image: Pierre Auguste Renoir – Le Moulin de la Galette. Captions, via Creative Commons

4. Camille Pissarro - Portrayal of Common People

Featured image: Camille Pissarro – Les Sarcleurs, 1882. Captions, via Creative Commons

5. Edgar Degas - Capturing Dance Movements

Featured image: Edgar Degas – Danseuses en Blanc, 1878 via sothebys.com

6. Paul Cézanne - Visual Research in Painting

Featured image: Paul Cézanne – Still Life with Skull, 1895-1900.Captions, via Creative Commons

7. Paul Gauguin - Damned Artist

Featured image: Paul Gauguin – Tahitian Women on the Beach. Captions, via Creative Commons

8. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Painter of the Parisian Decadence

Featured images: Henri de Toulouse Lautrec – At the Moulin Rouge. Captions, via Creative Commons;

Henri de Toulous Lautrec – At the Moulin Rouge.Captions, via Creative Commons

9. Henri Rousseau - Exotic Portrait Landscapes

Featured image: Henri Rousseau – The Dream. Captions, via Creative Commons

10. Georges Braque - Father of Cubism

Featured images: Georges Braque – Man with a Guitar, 1911. Captions, via Creative Commons