List of French women artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in France or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.
A
- Louise Abbéma, painter, sculptor, designer
- Georges Achille-Fould, painter
- Françoise Adnet, figurative painter
- Hélène Agofroy, contemporary artist
- Georgette Agutte, painter
- Lou Albert-Lasard, painter
- Beatrice Valentine Amrhein, painter
- Anastasia, manuscript illuminator
- Virginie Ancelot, painter, writer
- Hélène Marie Antigna, painter
- Lydie Arickx, painter
- Yolande Ardissone, painter
- Geneviève Asse, painter
- Pauline Auzou, painter
B
- Anna Barbara Bansi, painter
- Jeanne Bardey, painter, sculptor
- Nina Barka, Russian-born French painter
- Françoise Basseporte, painter
- Marie Adelaide Baubry-Vaillant, painter
- Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu, painter
- Amélie Beaury-Saurel, painter
- Hélène de Beauvoir, painter
- Gabrielle Bellocq painter, artist in pastels
- Denise Bellon, photographer associated with Surrealism
- Marie-Guillemine Benoist, painter
- Marcelle Bergerol, painter
- Augusta Bernard, fashion designer
- Solange Bertrand, painter, sculptor, engraver
- Adélaïde Binart, painter
- Lucienne Bisson, painter
- Marie Blancour, painter
- Jeanne Bonaparte, painter, sculptor
- Juliette Bonheur, painter
- Rosa Bonheur, painter
- Marie Bouliard, portrait painter
- Madeleine Boullogne, still life painter
- Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
- Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella, engraver
- Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, engraver
- Marthe Boyer-Breton, painter
- Marie Bracquemond, painter
- Elisa Breton, artist, writer
- Henriette Browne, orientalist painter
- Élise Bruyère, painter
- Marie-Abraham Rosalbin de Buncey, painter
- Berthe Burgkan, painter
C
- Marcelle Cahn, painter
- Joséphine Calamatta, painter, engraver
- Yvonne Canu, painter
- Marie-Gabrielle Capet, painter
- Henriette Cappelaere, painter
- Madeleine Carpentier, painter
- Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier, painter, sculptor
- Renée Carpentier-Wintz, painter
- Béatrice Casadesus, painter, educator
- Madeleine Caudel, landscape painter
- Madame Cavé, painter, teacher
- Berthe Cazin, painter, potter, goldsmith
- Marie Cazin, painter, sculptor
- Angelique Charbonée, engraver
- Eugénie Charen, painter
- Émilie Charmy, avant-garde painter
- Constance Marie Charpentier, painter
- Zoé-Laure de Chatillon, painter
- Francine Charderon, portrait painter
- Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, painter
- Germaine Chaumel, illustrator
- Aimée Julie Cheron, miniature painter
- Li Chevalier, painter, installation artist
- Geneviève Claisse, abstract painter
- Marie Jeanne Clemens, French-Danish engraver, pastel artist
- Marie-Amélie Cogniet, painter
- Héloïse Colin, painter, fashion illustrator
- Uranie Alphonsine Colin-Libour, painter
- Jacqueline Comerre-Paton, painter
- Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin, painter, writer
- Louise Zoé Coste, painter
- Lucie Cousturier, painter, writer
- Laure Coutan-Montorgueil, sculptor
- Marie Courtois, miniature painter
- Béatrice Cussol, artist, writer
D
- Jeanne Bernard Dabos, miniature painter
- Augustine Dallemagne, miniature painter
- Hermine David, painter
- Césarine Davin-Mirvault, painter
- Marie-Victoire Davril, painter
- Elsa Dax, painter
- Iphigénie Decaux-Milet-Moreau, flower painter
- Herminie Déhérain, painter
- Julie Delance-Feurgard, painter
- Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-born French painter
- Marguerite Delorme, painter
- Virginie Demont-Breton, painter
- Émilie Desjeux, painter
- Louise-Adéone Drölling, painter
- Angèle Dubos, painter
- Victoria Dubourg, flower painter
- Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, painter
- Catherine Duchemin, flower and fruit painter
- Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, painter, musician
- Clémentine-Hélène Dufau, painter
- Adélaïde Dufrénoy, poet, painter
- Natalia Dumitresco, Romanian-born French abstract painter
- Thérèse-Marthe-Françoise Dupré, realist painter
- Pierrette-Madeleine-Cécile Durand, painter
F
- Nina Fagnani, American-born French miniature painter
- Hélène Feillet, painter and lithographer
- Jeanne Fichel, painter
- Clara Filleul, painter and children's writer
- Rosalie Filleul, pastellist, painter
- Fanny Fleury, painter
- Marie-Anne-Julie Forestier, painter
- Brigitte Lovisa Fouché, painter
- Pauline Fourès, painter, novelist
- Consuelo Fould, painter
- Marie-Anne Fragonard, miniature painter
- Sophie Fremiet, painter
- Charlotte Eustace Sophie de Fuligny-Damas, flower painter
G
- Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou, painter
- Annick Gendron, abstract painter
- Marguerite Gérard, painter, etcher
- Louise Germain, painter
- Françoise Gilot, painter, writer
- Marie-Suzanne Giroust, painter
- Paule Gobillard, painter
- Marie-Éléonore Godefroid, portrait painter
- Eva Gonzalès, Impressionist painter
- Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy, painter
- Anna-Geneviève Greuze, painter
- Henriette Gudin, marine painter
- Rosina Mantovani Gutti, painter
- Maximilienne Guyon, painter
H
- Adélaïde Victoire Hall, Swedish-French painter
- Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, genre painter
- Jeanne Hébuterne, painter
- Blanche Hennebutte-Feillet, lithographer
- Emma Herland, painter
- Louise Marie-Jeanne Hersent-Mauduit, painter
- I.J. Berthe Hess, painter
- Marie-Anne Horthemels, engraver
- Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, engraver
- Marguerite J. A. Houdon, painter
- Joséphine Houssaye, painter
- Marie Huet, painter
- Julie Hugo, painter
- Anne Marguerite Hyde de Neuville, painter
I
- Camille Cornelie Isbert, painter
- Jeanne Itasse-Broquet, sculptor
J
- Marguerite Jacquelin, flower painter
- Nélie Jacquemart, painter, art collector
- Jeanne Jacquemin, painter
- Marie Victoire Jaquotot, painter
- Marine Joatton, contemporary artist
K
- Bernadette Kanter,, sculptor
L
- Élodie La Villette, painter
- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, miniaturist and portrait painter
- Espérance Langlois, painter, printmaker
- Andrée Lavieille, painter
- Marie Adrien Lavieille, painter
- Marie Ernestine Lavieille, painter
- Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, painter
- Marie Laurencin, painter, printmaker
- Jeanne-Philiberte Ledoux, painter
- Madeleine Lemaire, painter
- Marie-Victoire Lemoine, painter
- Sonia Lewitska, Ukrainian-born painter, printmaker, working in France
- Sophie Lienard, portrait miniaturist
- Marianne Loir, portrait painter
- Henriette Lorimier, portrait painter
- Séraphine Louis, painter
- Marie Lucas Robiquet, Orientalist painter
M
- Dora Maar, photographer, poet, painter
- Sophie Mallebranche, artist, textile designer
- Julie Manet, painter
- Maria Manton, painter
- Marie Antoinette Marcotte, painter
- Jacqueline Marval, painter
- Lidiya Masterkova, Russian-born French painter
- Marie-Alexandrine Mathieu, artist known for her etchings
- Caroline de Maupéou, painter
- Constance Mayer, painter
- Angélique Mezzara, painter
- Victorine Meurent, painter
- Ksenia Milicevic, painter, architect
- Miss Van, graffiti artist
- Miss.Tic, street wall artist, poet
- Louise Moillon, Baroque painter
- Blanche Hoschedé Monet, painter
- Angélique Mongez, painter
- Émilie-Sophie de Montullé, painter
- Mirka Mora, French-born Australian visual artist
- Blanche Moria, sculptor
- Eulalie Morin, portrait painter
- Berthe Morisot, Impressionist painter
- Tania Mouraud, contemporary artist
- Euphémie Muraton, painter
N
- Aurélie Nemours, abstract painter
- Marie Nicolas, painter
- Marie-Thérèse de Noireterre, miniuaturist
O
- Princess Marie of Orléans, sculptor, designer
P
- Marie Parrocel, painter
- Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin, numismatist, writer, painter
- Blanche Paymal-Amouroux, painter
- Marie Petiet, painter
- Laure Pigeon, Spiritualist artist
- Alice Prin, painter, writer
Q
- Anna Quinquaud, explorer and sculptor
R
- Alice Rahon, French-Mexican Surrealist artist, poet
- Marie Raymond, abstract painter
- Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte, painter
- Marie-Thérèse Reboul, still life painter
- Hortense Richard, painter
- Adèle Riché, painter
- Jeanne Rij-Rousseau, Cubist painter
- Cendrine Robelin, contemporary artist
- Juliette Roche, Cubist painter
- Michèle Van de Roer, Dutch-born painter, photographer, engraver
- Adèle Romany, miniature painter
- Jeanne Rongier, painter
- Charlotte de Rothschild, socialite, painter
- Jeanne Royannez, sculptor
S
- Apollonie Sabatier, courtesan, salon holder
- Niki de Saint-Phalle, sculptor, painter, filmmaker
- Eugénie Salanson, painter
- Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont, painter, lithographer
- Félicie Schneider, portrait painter
- Marie-Ernestine Serret, painter, pastellist
- Marguerite Sir, outsider textile artist
- Élisabeth Sonrel, painter, illustrator
- Anne Strésor, painter, nun
- Élisabeth Swagers, painter
T
- Élisabeth-Claire Tardieu, engraver
- Henriette Tirman, painter, printmaker
- Sophie de Tott, painter
V
- Suzanne Valadon, painter
- Frédérique Vallet-Bisson, painter
- Anne Vallayer-Coster, painter
- Caroline de Valory, painter, engraver
- Angélique-Louise Verrier, painter
- Marie-Nicole Vestier, painter
- Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter
- Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painter
- Marie-Denise Villers, portrait painter
- Élodie La Villette, landscape painter
- Henriette Vincent, botanical painter
- Stéphanie de Virieu, painter, sculptor
W
- Hermine Waterneau, painter
- Emilie Jenny Weyl, sculptor
Z
- Jenny Zillhardt, painter