The French painter, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, is celebrated as the most prominent French miniaturist of the early nineteenth century.

Born in Nancy on April 11, 1767, Isabey was highly acclaimed for his portrait “Napoleon at Malmaison”, which is considered one of best likenesses of the emperor.

Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia is revered as one of the most intriguing and inscrutable artists of the past century.

Best-known as one of the leaders of Dada movement, Picabia was born on January 22, 1879, in Paris.

Charles Despiau is celebrated as one of the leading lights of French early 20th-century sculpture, who sought a new route for sculpture and developed a distinctive classicising style.

Famous for repeating the same model with only slight variations, Despiau was born on November 4, 1874, at Mont-de-Marsan, Landes.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin is celebrated as one of the most important artists of the 18^th century as well as one of the greatest masters of Still Life in the history of French art.

Venerated as the master of genre painting, Chardin was born in Paris on November 2, 1699, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left his native quarter of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Eugène Fromentin is celebrated as one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, and a great writer whose descriptions of paintings are the last word in the art of writing.

One of the cleverest modern harmonists of Academic Classicism, Fromentin was born on October 24, 1820, in La Rochelle, France.

Jean-Louis Forain is highly revered for his numerous drawings chronicling and commenting on Parisian city life at the end of the 19^th century.

Celebrated as one of the most significant living artists during his time, Forain was born on October 23, 1852, in Reims, Marne, and during his childhood, his family moved to Paris.

Religiously following the technicalities of antiquity to conserve the classical tradition of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin, the French Neoclassical painter, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, was acclaimed as the icon of cultural conservatism in 19^th-century France.

Best-known for his society portraits and female nudes, Ingres was born on August 29, 1780, Montauban, France.

Employing rich, intense color to depict portraits, landscapes and still lifes, the French painter and draughtsman, Georges Henri Rouault, is remembered for portraying the naked reality of mankind with the violence of drawing and color, the dynamism of the line and insistent brush strokes to create allegories of debauchery, misery, vice and indifference.

Famous as the most passionate artist of the 20^th century, Rouault was born in Paris on May 27, 1871.

Experimenting with different forms such as impressionism, fauvism, and collages, which brought together a series of imaginative pieces, bold colors and distinct shapes and styles, the 20^th century French painter, Georges Braque, is remembered for inventing Cubism with Pablo Picasso.

One of the great abstract painter of still life, Braque was born on May 13, 1882, in Argenteuil, France, into a working-class family. 

Incorporating faceted compositions, vibrant color, and contemporary subject matter that together coveted delight in the modern life and its technological innovations, the unique style of the French artist, Robert Delaunay, is best known for introducing vibrant color into Cubism, and thereby originated the trend eventually known as Orphism.

An important figure in 20th-century art, Delaunay was born on April 12, 1885, in Paris, into a prominent family.