Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, also known as Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson or simply Girodet(29 January 1767 – 9 December 1824), was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who participated in the early Romantic movement by including elements of eroticism in his paintings. Girodet is remembered for his precise and clear style and for his paintings of members of the Napoleonic family.
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon was a French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits such as Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons (1796). He painted a portrait of each of Napoleon's two wives.
Charles-Émile Jacque was a French painter of animals (animalier) and engraver who was, with Jean-François Millet, part of the Barbizon School. He first learned to engrave maps when he spent seven years in the French Army.
François Pascal Simon Gérard, titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a prominent French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was Italian. After he was made a baron of the Empire in 1809 by Emperor Napoleon, he was known formally as Baron Gérard.
Baron Charles Auguste Guillaume Steuben, also Charles de Steuben, was a German-born French Romantic painter and lithographer active during the Napoleonic Era.
Joseph-Benoît Suvée was a Flemish painter strongly influenced by French neo-classicism.
Charles Boulanger de Boisfremont, one of the pages of Louis XVI, went to America during the Revolution, and there taught himself painting. On his return he commenced exhibiting his works, in which he seems to have adopted Prud'hon as his model. Art is indebted to him for the restoration of the pictures at Versailles when they were in a very bad state of decay. The date of his birth is uncertain. He died in 1838. He exhibited amongst others the following:
Féréol Bonnemaison was a French portrait painter, lithographer, restorer, and art dealer.
Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella was a French engraver, most of whose prints were after works by Nicolas Poussin, or by her uncle Jacques Stella, from whom she received her artistic education.
Auguste-Joseph Carrier, a French painter. He was a pupil of Gros, Prud'hon, and Saint, and evinced much talent in the painting of miniatures, but in his later years he devoted himself almost entirely to landscapes. Carrier received the Légion d'Honneur in 1866.
Louis-Jacques Cathelin (1738–1804) was a French engraver.
Charles Nicolas Cochin the Elder was a French line-engraver.
Nicolas Cochin (1610–1686), called the Elder, was a French draughtsman and engraver. He was born at Troyes in 1610, the son of a painter named Noel Cochin. About 1635, he went to Paris, where he died in 1686. He often imitated and copied Jacques Callot, but chose for his model Stefano della Bella, some of whose drawings he engraved. Like these two artists he excelled in small figures, which he grouped and delineated with lifelike animation. His specialty was topography, including battles, sieges, and encampments. He engraved several hundred subjects, the most important of which are those he executed for the "Glorieuses Conquêtes de Louis le Grand", called the "Grand Beaulieu", published between 1676 and 1694. The best of these plates may be the "Siege of Arras", engraved on 16 plates by Cochin and Jean Frosne.
Charles François Hutin was a French history and figure painter, engraver and sculptor. He became director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.
Adrien Dauzats was a French landscape, genre painter and painter of Oriental subject matter. He travelled extensively throughout the Middle East and illustrated a number of books for the travel writer, Baron Taylor.
Jacques de Lajoue, a French architectural painter, was born in 1687. He became a member of the Academy in 1721, and is noticed for a 'Perspective' which he executed in 1732 at the Library of St. Geneviève. He also designed the title-page to the works of Wouwerman. Etchings have been made after him by Cochin, Tardieu, and others. He died in Paris in 1761.
Constance Mayer was a French painter of portraits, allegorical subjects, miniatures and genre works. She had "a brilliant but bitter career."
Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain was a painter and art historian, inspired by the French enlightenment.
Jean-Baptiste Mallet was a French painter in the Troubadour style.
Jacques Guiaud was a French painter and engraver; known for landscapes, cityscapes, historical scenes and assorted watercolors.
