* 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter ( d. 1898 )

Francois Boucher was the 18th century painter and engraver whose works are regarded as the perfect expression of French taste in the Rococo period.

* 1755 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter ( d. 1842 )

* 1714 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter ( d. 1789 )

* 1758 – Carle Vernet, French painter ( d. 1835 )

* 1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter ( d. 1894 )

* 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter ( d. 1805 )

* 1719 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter ( d. 1795 )

* 1780 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter ( d. 1867 )

* 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter ( d. 1825 )

* 1929 – Guy de Lussigny, French painter ( d. 2001 )

Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol ( December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944 ) was a French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

* 1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor ( d. 1805 )

In the First World War, the Cubist painter Andre Mare designed camouflage schemes for the French, British and Italian armies.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 2 November 1699 – 6 December 1779 ) was an 18th-century French painter.

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

In June 2006 publishers Skira / Wildenstein released Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, compiled by Joachim Pissarro ( descendant of the painter ) and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts ( descendant of the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel ).

* 1861 – Antonio de La Gandara, French painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French abstract painter ( d. 1944 )

* 1841 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter ( d. 1870 )

* 1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter ( d. 1891 )

* 1724 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter ( d. 1805 )

* 1792 – Nicolas Charlet, French painter ( d. 1845 )

* 1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter ( d. 1898 )

* 1716 – Charles de La Fosse, French painter ( b. 1640 )

Jacques-Louis David (; ) ( 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825 ) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

In 1789, Jacques-Louis David attempted to leave his artistic mark on the historical beginnings of the French Revolution with his painting of The Oath of the Tennis Court.

Jacques-Louis David was, in his time, regarded as the leading painter in France, and arguably all of Western Europe ; many of the painters honored by the restored Bourbons following the French Revolution had been David's pupils.

Following World War II, Jacques-Louis David was increasingly regarded as a symbol of French national pride and identity, as well as a vital force in the development of European and French art in the modern era.

* Roberts, Warren, Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution, The University of North Carolina Press ( 1 February 1992 ), ISBN 0-8078-4350-4

Exemplifying the French School are the early Avignon Pietà of Enguerrand Quarton ; the anonymous painting of King Jean le Bon ( c. 1360 ), possibly the oldest independent portrait in Western painting to survive from the postclassical era ; Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV ; Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon ; and Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People.

Beginning with Jacques-Louis David's painting The Oath of the Horatii ( 1784 ), an association of the gesture with Roman republican and imperial culture emerged through 18th century French art.

* Jacques-Louis David, French painter

* December 29 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter ( b. 1748 )

* August 30 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter ( d. 1825 )

However, his influence on later composers, and on post-WWII avant garde music developments in Europe and America were immense, particularly in Paris under the influence of the Webern disciple, Rene Leibowitz and at Darmstadt ; and concurrently, in New York City under the influences of another Webern disciple, the composer, Stefan Wolpe and the French composer-conductor, Jacques-Louis Monod.

The diorama was invented in 1822 by Louis Daguerre and Charles-Marie Bouton, the latter a former student of the renowned French painter Jacques-Louis David.

Three notable works, all dating from the 1770s, " Apollo and Diana Attacking Niobe and her Children " by Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier, " The Children of Niobe Killed by Apollo and Diana " by Pierre-Charles Jombert and " Diana and Apollo Piercing Niobe ’ s Children with their Arrows " by Jacques-Louis David belong to the tradition of French Baroque and Classicism.

* Jacques-Louis David ( 1748-1825 ), French painter

Cavaradossi studied art in Paris with Jacques-Louis David and lived in David's atelier during the French Revolution.

In 1789, at the dawn of the French Revolution, master painter Jacques-Louis David publicly exhibited his politically charged masterwork, The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, to great controversy.

French painter Jacques-Louis David | David portrayed the philosopher in The Death of Socrates ( 1787 ).

When Speed recalls his knowledge of French History, a rendition of Jacques-Louis David's painting of Napoleon Crossing the Alps, which depicts Napoleon riding Marengo, is drawn in the episode.

The French Collection includes works by painters such as Jacques-Louis David, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas and Cézanne, as well as those by Post-impressionists such as van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard.

The French referred derisively to the style of academic art as L ' art Pompier ( pompier means " fireman ") alluding to the paintings of Jacques-Louis David ( who was held in esteem by the academy ) which often depicted soldiers wearing fireman-like helmets.

* Jacques-Louis David ( French, 1748 – 1825 ) Passionate classical style political master painter

The only thing that all Downtown music might be said to have in common is that, at least at the time of its original appearance, it was too bizarre – by dint of excessive length, stasis, simplicity, extemporaneity, consonance, noisiness, pop influence, vernacular reference, or other purported infraction – to have been considered " serious " modern music by proponents of " uptown " music performed from the 1960s through the 1980s at the Juilliard School, Columbia University, and Lincoln Center, under the direction of the composers Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger in concerts by The Group for Contemporary Music, and concerts directed by the French conductor and pianist, Jacques-Louis Monod with the Guild of Composers.