French art
Louvre's home collection
French art encompasses visual art produced in France or by French artists, spanning from medieval cathedrals and Romanesque sculpture through Renaissance painting to the revolutionary movements of the 19th and 20th centuries—Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism.
France's central role in Western art history makes the term nearly synonymous with the European artistic tradition itself: The museum's French art collection draws millions of visitors annually.
- Limoges enamelFused glass on metal
- ImpressionismArt movement emphasizing light
- CubismFragmented geometric abstraction
- RealismMovement depicting ordinary life
- RococoLavishly ornamented decorative style
Romanticism · Fauvism · Left Bank · café culture · oil painting · still life · Delacroix · Monet · trompe-l'œil · belle époque · Symbolism · Louvre · Baroque · plein air · water lilies · Romanesque · Renoir · salon
- world art
- FranceParis, Notre-Dame, Lyon, croissant, Toulouse
- French Culturebaguette, baguettes, beret, berets, brie
- art museumspaintings, The Louvre, galleries, permanent collection, exhibitions
- art historyRenaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, Romanticism, Realism
- French influence on EnglandNorman conquest, Normans, William the Conqueror, Anglo-Norman, Bayeux Tapestry
French artGerman art
Creative works from Deutschland
American art · Italian art · Russian art · Spanish art · Japanese art
French artAsian art
Creative output from Eastern cultures
African art · Islamic art · Buddhist art · Aboriginal art · tribal art
French artoutsider art
Untrained makers' visual work
anti-art · folk art · naive art · kitsch · German Expressionism