Libéral Bruant

male, deceased (1697)
Libéral Bruant, was a French architect best known as the designer of the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris, now dominated by the dome erected by Jules Ha...
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

male, deceased (1836)
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (born May 10, 1760 in Lons-le-Saunier, Jura; died June 26, 1836 in Choisy-le-Roi, Seine-et-Oise) was a French...
James Pradier

James Pradier

male, deceased (1852)
James Pradier, also known as Jean-Jacques Pradier was a Swiss-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style. Born in...
Jean Jouvenet

Jean Jouvenet

male, deceased (1717)
Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet was a French painter He came from an artistic family, one of whom Noel Jouvenet may have taught Nicolas Poussin. He early...
Francisque Joseph Duret

Francisque Joseph Duret

male, deceased (1865)
Francisque Joseph Duret was a French sculptor, son and pupil of François-Joseph Duret (1732-1816). He also studied under Bosio, and won the Prix d...

Sébastien Slodtz

male, deceased (1726)
Sébastien Slodtz was a French sculptor, the father of a trio of brothers who helped shape official French sculpture between the Baroque and the R...

Gabriel François Doyen

male, deceased (1806)
Gabriel François Doyen, French painter, was born at Paris. His passion for art prevailed over his father's wish, and he became in his twelfth year a...

René-Michel Slodtz

male, deceased (1764)
René-Michel Slodtz or Michelangelo and in France, Michel-Ange Slodtz was a French sculptor working in a Rococo style, and active mainly in Rome a...

Antoine Étex

male, deceased (1888)
Antoine Étex, French sculptor, painter and architect, was born in Paris. He first exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1833, his work including a r...

Eugène Andre Oudine

male, deceased (1887)
Eugène Andre Oudine, French sculptor and engraver of medals, was born in Paris in 1810, and devoted himself from the beginning to the medallist's b...