The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.

See also French Baroque and Classicism, Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu, Baroque, Louis XIV, Palace of Versailles, Classicism

See also Palace of Versailles, Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour, Rococo, Louis XVI, Neoclassicism, Enlightenment, Gobelins. For art criticism, see Denis Diderot

See also French Revolution, Napoleon, Romanticism, Barbizon school, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Academic art, Napoleon III, Photography, Modernism

See also Modern art, Modernism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Les Nabis, Fauvism, Symbolism, Symbolist painters, Art Nouveau, Primitivism

See also Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Modernism, Cubism, Puteaux Group, Dada, Surrealism