List of French engravers

This is a chronological list of French engravers.

Renaissance

Apocalypse (1550–1560), Jean Duvet

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)

The Creation of Light, Gustave Doré

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)

December (1895), wood engraving by Eugène Grasset

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)

Allan Österlind , Danseuse de flamenco, eau-forte et aquatinte sur papier

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
René Quillivic [fr] (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

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