List of French engravers
This is a chronological list of French engravers.
Renaissance
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 and engraver
- 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
- Albert Flamen (1620–1674), engraver
- Israël Sylvestre (1621–1691), engraver
- Robert Nanteuil (1623–1678), engraver, draughtsman and pastelist
- Gabriel Pérelle (1604–1677), engraver
- Gérard Audran (1640–1703), engraver
- Michel Mollart (1641–1712), medallist and engraver on copperplate
- 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-Julien Barier (1680–1746), 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
- 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
- Jean Ouvrier (1725–1754), engraver
- Guillaume Nicolas Delahaye (1725–1802), engraver
- Jacques Aliamet (1726–1788), engraver
- Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731–1797), engraver
- Hubert Robert (1733–1808), painter, engraver
- Benoît-Louis Prévost (1735–1804), engraver
- Jean-Pierre Houël (1735–1813), engraver, draughtsman and painter
- Simon Charles Miger (1736–1828), engraver
- Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736–1810), engraver
- Marin-Nicolas Jadoulle (1736–1805), engraver and sculptor
- Louis-Gabriel Monnier (1739–1804), medallist and engraver
- Jean-Michel Moreau (1741–1814), engraver
- Jacques-François Chéreau (1742-1794), engraver
- François Godefroy (1743–1819), engraver
- Antoine Borel (1743–?), painter, draughtsman and 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 (born circa 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
- André Galle (1761–1844), engraver
- Louis Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), painter, draughtsman and engraver
- Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761–1824), painter, engraver
- Louis-Jean Allais (1762–1833), painter and engraver
- Jean-Jérôme Baugean (1764–1830), painter and 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
- Théodore Richomme (1785–1849), engraver
- François Forster (1790–1872), engraver
- Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), painter and engraver
- Jean-Alexandre Allais (1792–1850), engraver
- Léon Cogniet (1794–1880), painter, portraitist and lithographer
- Paul Letarouilly (1795–1855), architect, cartographer and engraver
- Jean-Denis Nargeot (1795–1865), engraver
- Godard II d'Alençon (1797–1864), engraver on wood
- Louis-Henri Brévière (1797–1869), engraver
- Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont (1797–1892), engraver and draughtsman
- Pierre-François Godard fils (1797–1864), engraver and lithographer
- Nicolas Eustache Maurin (1799–1850), engraver
- 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
- Louis Marc Bacler d'Albe (1805–1887), draughtsman, painter and lithographer
- Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), painter, engraver
- Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), lithographer, draughtsman, illustrator and painter
- Adolphe Maugendre (1809–1895), lithographer and engraver
- 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
- Léon Gaucherel (1816–1886), engraver
- Charles Marville (1816–1879), painter, engraver, photographer
- Charles-André Malardot (1817–1879), painter and engraver
- Aimé de Lemud (1817–1887), painter, engraver, and lithographer
- Amédée Varin (1818–1883), engraver
- Jacques Adrien Lavieille (1818–1862), engraver on wood
- Alphonse Leroy (1820–1902), engraver
- Charles Meryon (1821–1868), engraver
- Hector Giacomelli (1822–1904), painter, watercolorist, illustrator and engraver
- Ovide Gautier (1822–1896), engraver
- François Chifflart (1825–1901), painter and draughtsman
- Pierre-Auguste Lamy (1827–1880), engraver, lithographer and watercolorist
- Émile Frédéric Nicolle (1830–1894), painter and engraver
- Adolphe Bellevoye (1830–1908), draughtsman and engraver
- 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 engraver
- 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
- Edme-Jean Pigal (1798–1872), painter, engraver, lithographer
19th-century (Impression and Fauvism)
- Léon Barillot (1844–1929), engraver and painter
- Jules Adeline (1845–1909), historian, draughtsman architect and engraver
- Eugène Grasset (1845–1917), engraver, poster artist and decorator
- Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), painter, draughtsman, watercolorist, and engraver
- Eugène-André Champollion (1848–1901), engraver
- Eugène Carrière (1849–1906), painter and lithographer
- Henri Toussaint (1849–1911), painter, illustrator and engraver
- 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
- Jean Coraboeuf (1870–1947), painter and engraver
- Edgar Chahine (1874–1947), painter, illustrator and engraver
- René Péan (1875–1955), painter and lithographer
- Charles Dufresne (1876–1938), painter, engraver and decorator
20th-century (before World War II)
- Jacques Villon (1875–1963), painter and engraver
- Adolphe Beaufrère (1876–1960), painter and engraver
- Jean Émile Laboureur (1877–1943), painter, draughtsman, engraver and illustrator
- Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), painter, draughtsman, illustrator, ceramist, decorator and engraver
- Pierre-Alexandre Morlon (1878–1951), engraver-medallist
- Paul Adrien Bouroux (1878–1967), painter, illustrator and engraver
- Jean Frélaut (1879–1954), painter, engraver and illustrator
- Raymond Renefer (1879–1957), painter and engraver
- Henry Cheffer (1880–1957), painter and engraver
- Maurice Victor Achener (1881–1963), painter and engraver
- Raoul Serres (1881–1971), illustrator and engraver
- Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter and engraver
- Jean Metzinger (1883–1956), painter, engraver
- Charles Forget (1886–1960), painter, engraver
- Raymond Renefer painter, engraver
- Edmond-Marie Poullain (1878–1951), painter and engraver
20th-century (post-World War II)
- Henri-Georges Adam (1904–1967), engraver and sculptor
- Pierre Albuisson (1952–), draughtsman and engraver
- Yves Alix (1890–1969), painter, engraver
- Louttre B. (1926–), painter and engraver
- Hervé Baille (1896–1974), draughtsman and engraver
- André Barre, engraver
- Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), sculptor, photographer, engraver
- Pierre Béquet (1932–), draughtsman and engraver
- Jean Bertholle (1909–1996), painter
- Gérard Blanchard (1927–1998), typographer, and engraver
- Francis Domenget (1926–1993), engraver
- Elsa Catelin (1975–), engraver
- Jean Chièze (1898–1975), engraver on wood
- René Cottet (1902–1992), painter and engraver
- Pierre Courtin (1921–), painter and engraver
- Xavier Degans (1949–), painter, sculptor, and lithographer
- Christian d'Espic (1901–1978), painter-engraver
- Jean Feugereux (1923–1992), painter-engraver
- Marcel Fiorini (1922–), painter and engraver
- Albert Flocon (1909–1994), engraver
- Pierre Forget (1923–2005), engraver
- Johnny Friedlaender (1912–1992), painter and engraver
- Henri Goetz (1909–1989), painter and engraver
- Cécile Guillame (1933–2004), engraver
- André Jacquemin (1904–1992), painter and engraver
- Ariane Laroux, illustrator, portraitist, painter and engraver
- André Lavergne (1946–), engraver
- Max Leognany (1913–1994), painter, engraver, sculptor
- Erik Levesque (1960–), painter and engraver
- Ève Luquet (1954–), designer and engraver
- Jeanne Malivel (1895–1926), decorator and engraver
- Alfred Manessier (1911–1993), painter
- Maoual (1959–), painter and engraver
- Philippe Mohlitz (1941-) engraver and sculptor
- Gen Paul (1898–1975), painter, engraver
- Jean Plichart (1950–2006), painter and engraver
- René Quillivic (1925–), sculptor and engraver
- Alfred-Georges Regner (1902–1987), painter and engraver
- Jean-Claude Reynal (1938–1988), draughtsman and engraver
- Théo Schmied (1900–1985), engraver
- Louis-Joseph Soulas (1905–1954), painter-engraver
- Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921–), painter, engraver and sculptor
- Pierre Turin (1891–1968), engraver-medallist
- Raoul Ubac (1910–1985), painter
- Louis Vuillermoz (1923–), painter and lithographer
- Zao Wou-Ki (1921–), photographer, calligrapher, sculptor, engraver
See also