List of French engravers

This is a chronological list of French engravers.

Renaissance

• Geoffroy Tory (1480–1533), humanist and engraver
• Jean Rabel (1545–1603), painter and engraver
• Jean Duvet (c. 1485–c. 1570), engraver
• Jean Cousin the Younger (1490–1561), painter, engraver, sculptor
• Thomas de Leu (1560–1612), engraver
• Jacques Bellange (1575–1616), engraver
• Daniel Rabel (1578–1637), painter and engraver

17th-century

• François Perrier (1590–1650), painter and engraver
• Jacques Callot (1592–1635), engraver
• Claude Mellan (1598–1688), painter, draughtsman and engraver
• Balthasar Moncornet (1600–1668), painter and engraver
• Abraham Bosse (1602–1676), engraver
• Jean Varin (1604–1672), sculptor, engraver, medallist
• Nicolas Robert (1610–1684), miniaturist and engraver
• François Chauveau (1613–1676), draughtsman, engraver and painter
• Michel Dorigny (1617–1663), painter and engraver
• Jean Le Pautre (1618–1682), draughtsman and engraver
• Jean Marot (1619–1679), draughtsman and engraver
• Albert Flamen (1620–1674), engraver
• Israël Silvestre (1621–1691), engraver
• Robert Nanteuil (1623–1678), engraver, draughtsman and pastelist
• François de Poilly (1623-1693), engraver
• Gabriel Perelle (1604–1677), engraver
• Gérard Audran (1640–1703), engraver
• Jean Mauger (1648–1712), medallist and engraver on copperplate
• Gérard Edelinck (1649–1707), engraver
• Jacques Restout (1650–1701), painter
• Louis Dorigny (1654–1742), painter and engraver
• Eustache Restout (1655–1743), architect, engraver and painter

18th-century

• Nicolas Dorigny (1658–1746), painter and engraver
• Pierre Drevet (1664–1738), engraver
• Étienne Jehandier Desrochers (1668–1741), engraver
• François Chéreau (1680-1729), engraver
• Charles Dupuis (1685–1742), engraver
• Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755), painter and engraver
• Jacques Chéreau (1688–1776), engraver and publisher
• Anne Claude Philippe de Tubieres de Grimoard de Pestels de Levis, Comte de Caylus (1692–1765)
• Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774), bookseller and engraver
• Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (1695–1771), engraver
• Pierre Imbert Drevet (1697–1739), engraver
• Hubert-Francois Bourguignon Gravelot (1699–1773), engraver
• Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774), architect and engraver
• François Boucher (1703–1770), painter, engraver
• Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (1707–1783), engraver
• Noël Hallé (1711–1781), painter and engraver
• Pierre-Simon Fournier (1712–1768), engraver
• Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714–1789), painter, engraver, draughtsman
• Jean-Joseph Balechou (1715–1765), engraver
• Jacques Guay (1715–1787), engraver
• Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715–1790), engraver and draughtsman
• Joseph-Marie Vien (1716–1809), painter, draughtsman and engraver
• Carmontelle (1717–1806), painter, draughtsman, engraver
• Claude-Henri Watelet (1718–1786)
• Étienne Ficquet (1719–1794), engraver
• Charles Eisen (1720–1778), painter and engraver
• Charles Germain de Saint Aubin (1721–1786), engraver
• Pierre-François Basan (1723–1797), engraver
• Jacques Aliamet (1726–1788), engraver
• Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731–1797), engraver
• Hubert Robert (1733–1808), painter, engraver
• Benoît-Louis Prévost (1735 or 1747–1804), engraver
• Jean-Pierre Houël (1735–1813), engraver, draughtsman and painter
• Simon Charles Miger (1736–1828), engraver
• Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736–1810), engraver
• Pierre-François Laurent (1739-1809), engraver
• Jean-Michel Moreau (1741–1814), engraver
• François-Rolland Elluin (1745–1810), engraver
• Gérard van Spaendonck (1746–1822), painter and engraver
• Vivant Denon (1747–1825), diplomat and administrator, writer and engraver
• Augustin Dupré (1748–1833), medallist and engraver
• Charles Eschard (1748–1810), painter, draughtsman and engraver
• P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel (c. 1750–?), draughtsman and engraver
• Michel-François Dandré-Bardon (1752–1809), painter, draughtsman and engraver
• Philibert-Louis Debucourt (1755–1832), painter and engraver
• Charles Clément Balvay (1756–1822), engraver
• François-Nicolas Martinet (c. 1760–1800), engineer and engraver

19th-century (Romanticism and Impressionism)

• Jean Achard (1807–1884), painter and engraver
• Théodore Basset de Jolimont (1787-1854)
• Louis Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), painter, draughtsman and engraver
• Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761–1824), painter, engraver
• Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846), architect, engraver and painter
• Pierre Audouin (1768–1822), engraver
• Louis-François Lejeune (1775–1848), painter and engraver
• Pierre Bouillon (1776–1831), engraver and painter
• Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777–1837), painter, draughtsman and engraver
• Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers (1779–1857), engraver
• Henri Laurent (1779-1844), engraver
• Théodore Richomme (1785–1849), engraver
• Auguste-François Michaut (1785–1849), engraver, medallist, sculptor
• François Forster (1790–1872), engraver
• Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), painter and engraver
• Léon Cogniet (1794–1880), painter, portraitist and lithographer
• Louis-Henri Brévière (1797–1869), engraver
• Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont (1797–1892), engraver and draughtsman
• Charles Philipon (1800–1862), draughtsman, lithographer, journalist and editor
• Achille Devéria (1800–1857), painter, engraver
• Bernard-Romain Julien (1802–1871), lithographer
• Tony Johannot (1803–1852), engraver, illustrator and painter
• Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (Grandville), (1803–1847), engraver
• Auguste Raffet (1804–1860), draughtsman and engraver
• Eugène Isabey (1804–1886), painter, watercolorist and lithographer
• Espérance Langlois (1805–1864), painter and engraver
• Louis Godefroy Jadin (1805–1882), animal and landscape painter
• Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), painter, engraver
• Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), lithographer, draughtsman, illustrator and painter
• Polyclès Langlois (1813–1872), engraver, draughtsman and painter
• Charles Blanc (1813–1882), historian, art critic and engraver
• Charles Jacque (1813–1894), animal painter and engraver
• Charles Marville (1816–1879), painter, engraver, photographer
• Alphonse Leroy (1820–1902), engraver
• Charles Meryon (1821–1868), engraver
• Hector Giacomelli (1822–1904), painter, watercolorist, illustrator and engraver
• François Chifflart (1825–1901), painter and draughtsman
• Pierre-Auguste Lamy (1827–1880), engraver, lithographer and watercolorist
• Léopold Flameng (1831–1911), engraver, illustrator and painter
• Gustave Doré (1832–1883), engraver
• Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painter, engraver, sculptor and photographer
• James Tissot (1836–1902), painter and etcher
• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), painter and lithographer
• Jules Chéret (1836–1932), painter, poster artist and lithographer
• Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), painter and engraver
• Adolphe Lalauze (1838–1905), illustrator, painter and engraver
• Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839–1909), engraver
• Odilon Redon (1840–1916), painter, engraver and pastelist
• Fortuné Méaulle (1844–1901), wood-engraver and writer
• Alfred Johannot (1800–1836), engraver and painter

19th-century (Impression and Fauvism)

• Henri Thiriat (1843–1926), engraver
• Léon Barillot (1844–1929), engraver and painter
• Victor Gustave Lhuillier (1844–1889), engraver and etcher
• Eugène Grasset (1845–1917), engraver, poster artist and decorator
• Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), painter, draughtsman, watercolorist, and engraver
• Eugène Carrière (1849–1906), painter and lithographer
• Auguste-Louis Lepère (1849–1918), painter and engraver
• Jean-Louis Forain (1852–1931), painter, illustrator and engraver
• Adolphe Willette (1857–1926), illustrator, caricaturist and engraver
• Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923), painter, draughtsman and lithographer
• George Auriol (1863–1938), journalist, poet, painter and engraver
• Henri Bellery-Desfontaines (1867–1909), painter, illustrator, poster artist, lithographer, draughtsman, architect and engraver
• Edgar Chahine (1874–1947), painter, illustrator and engraver
• Charles Dufresne (1876–1938), painter, engraver and decorator

20th-century (before World War II)

• Abel Mignon (1861–1936), engraver
• Allan Österlind (1855–1938), painter and engraver
• Malo-Renault (1870–1938) illustrator, color engraver and pastelist
• Jacques Villon (1875–1963), painter and engraver
• Adolphe Beaufrère (1876–1960), painter and engraver
• Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), painter, draughtsman, illustrator, ceramist, decorator and engraver
• Henry Cheffer (1880–1957), painter and engraver
• Raoul Serres (1881–1971), illustrator and engraver
• Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter and engraver
• Jean Metzinger (1883–1956), painter, engraver

20th-century (post-World War II)

• Henri-Georges Adam (1904–1967), engraver and sculptor
• Pierre Albuisson (1952–), draughtsman and engraver
• Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), sculptor, photographer, engraver
• Jean Bertholle (1909–1996), painter
• Érik Desmazières (1948-), engraver
• Johnny Friedlaender (1912–1992), painter and engraver
• Henri Goetz (1909–1989), painter and engraver
• Cécile Guillame (1933–2004), engraver
• Max Leognany (1913–1994), painter, engraver, sculptor
• Ève Luquet (1954–), designer and engraver
• Jeanne Malivel (1895–1926), decorator and engraver
• Alfred Manessier (1911–1993), painter
• Gen Paul (1898–1975), painter, engraver
• (1925–2016), sculptor and engraver
• Alfred-Georges Regner (1902–1987), painter and engraver
• Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921–), painter, engraver and sculptor
• Raoul Ubac (1910–1985), painter
• Zao Wou-Ki (1921–2013), photographer, calligrapher, sculptor, engraver

See also

• List of French painters
• List of French artists

References