Index of artists

François-Joseph Bélanger. Bust of Louis XVII based on drawing by Bélanger;

Nicolas van Blarenberghe [miniaturist]  Hôtel Choiseul depicted on snuffbox; second snuffbox with views of Chanteloup

Louis-Léopold Boilly  Portrait of Augustin(?) Robespierre (ascribed to Boilly); Robespierre (in Lille);  Triumph of Marat; Portrait of a sans-culotte; "Scenes of Parisian life" exhibition at the National Gallery 

Louis-Simon Boizot [sculptor] Bust of Louis XVI;  Royal portrait medallions

Marie Louise Adélaïde Boizot [engraver] Portraits of the Royal family

Pierre-Antoine Boudouin  Paintings exhibited at the Paris Salons; "Hours of the day"

Joseph Boze:  Portraits: Jacques Vaucanson; Marie-Antoinette;Mirabeau;  Robespierre; Danton

Abraham-Louis Breguet [watchmaker] "Marie-Antoinette" watch 

Constance-Marie Charpentier Portraits of Danton

Charles-Antoine Coypel  Adrienne Lecouvreur;  Mohammed Reza Beg, Persian ambassador (miniature)

Philippe Curtius, [artist in wax] Career up to the Revolution; Career during the Revolution; Rivalry with Francesco Orso; Relation to Madame Tussaud  

Works: Wax figures exhibited in the 1780s; self-portrait; "Sleeping Beauty"; Madame du Barry (guillotined);  miniature wax figures of Rousseau and Necker (attributed to Curtius)  
See also:  Madame Tussaud

Henri-Pierre Danloux  Possibly painted The Skater, ascribed to Raeburn

Jacques-Louis David  Facial deformity: Early portraits of David; Last portrait of David, by Langlois

Works:  Death of Marat; Portraits of Danton;  Robespierre (sketch attributed to David);  Jean-Baptiste Carrier (attributed to David);  Saint-Just;  Marie-Antoinette (sketch attributed to David); Portraits of his fellow deputies in prison;  Possible portrait of his gaoler

François Seraphin Delpech  [engraver]  Robespierre; Saint-Just; Joseph Le Bon
Claude-André Deseine [sculptor]  Life and career;  Busts of: Robespierre; Robespierre (2nd post) Mirabeau; Gabrielle Danton

Louis-Pierre Deseine [sculptor]  Bust of Louis XVI; Portrait busts of Louis XVII.
Pierre-Antoine Demachy Painting showing the Church of Ste.Geneviève

Dominique-Vivant Denon,  Relations with Voltaire; Reliquary; Revolutionary "heads"; Portraits of Robespierre; Robespierre (cont.); Portraits of Couthon; Scenes from the Revolution; 

Alexandre François Desportes Still life with silver
Rémy-Furcy Descarsin National guardsman & his wife (Musée de la Révolution, Vizille)
Dominique Doncre  Life and career; Portrait of Joseph Le Bon; and trompe l'oeil painting

Joseph Ducreux, Self-portrait mistaken for Robespierre by Greuze (no.24) ; Another portrait identified as Robespierre by Ducreux (no.22) ;Portrait of "Robespierre" sold in 2003;   Possible portrait of Louis XVII.

François Dumont, Marie-Antoinette



William Henry Fisk [Victorian artist]   Robespierre

Louis de Fontaine   Adrienne Lecouvreur
Jean-Honoré Fragonard  Diderot/fantasy portraits; Progress of Love (Louveciennes)


Georges-François-Marie Gabriel  Portraits of Revolutionary politicians;  Revolutionary "types"

François Gérard  Robespierre
Jean-Baptiste Greuze  Saint-Just 


William Hogarth Gates of Calais and other depictions of the French
Jean-Antoine Houdon [sculptor] 

Louis XVI bust

Voltaire:  Voltaire (Bibliothèque nationale); Voltaire (Comédie française);  Voltaire (Musée Lambinet); Voltaire (small statuettes);  Voltaire (papier-maché after Houdon) ; Robespierre(?) 
Jean-Baptiste Isabey Portrait of Hubert Robert; Portrait of Danton


Alexander Kucharski.  Portraits of Marie-Antoinette: Unfinished, from the Tuileries; From the Temple prison;  Sold by Jean-Louis Remilleux;   Newly-published, belonging to Jacques Larcia;

Portrait of Louis XVI sold by Jean-Louis Remilleux

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Duc de Choiseul  Robespierre
Nicolas Lancret  Lady at her toilette

Jérôme-Martin Langlois  Portrait of David
Philippe de Lasalle [designer of textiles]Silk designs; Catherine the Great (silk portrait)

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux [architect]  Pavilion of Mme du Barry at Louveciennes; Paris customs houses (Wall of the Fermiers-generaux); Possible 


Jean-Marc Nattier Madame Marsollier and her daughter

Francesco Orso [waxworks]  Career in Revolutionary France

Augustin Panjou [sculptor] Bust of Louis XVI

Jean-Marie Papillon (wood engraver and wallpaper manufacturer)Place in the history of wallpaper

Plates for the Encyclopédie illustrating wallpaper manufacture and hanging

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle [sculptor] Tomb of the maréchal de Saxe
Pierre-Paul Prud'homme Saint-Just


Henry Raeburn  The Skater - possibly painted by Danloux
Jean Restout   Portrait of the diacre Pâris

Hubert Robert Portrait of the artist by Jean-Baptiste Isabey; Royal Mass at theTuileries; Revolutionary subjects; pictures painted in prison;
David Roentgen [maker of automata]  Dulcimer player
Guillaume-Joseph Roques, Death of Marat


Michel Serre Depictions of the 1720 plague
Thomas Stuart  Chevalier d'Éon

Nicolas-Antoine TaunayBivouac des Sans-culottes  Triumph of the Guillotine (c.1795);  

François de Troy  Depictions of "la toilette";  Portrait of Adrienne Lecouvreur (c1723); Le déjeuner d'huîtres 

Madame Tussaud,  TV documentary "Madame Tussaud: a legend in wax;
Wax figures: Voltaire; Marat;  Franklin; tableau of the French Royal family; "Sleeping Beauty"
Guillotined heads: Robespierre;  Robespierre (illustration from Hector Fleischmann); Hébert, Carrier and Fouquier-Tinville; Marie-Antoinette; 
Deathmasks attributed to Madame Tussaud at the Musée Grévin

Jacques Vaucanson [inventor] Automata

Adèle Varillat, née Tourezy Portrait of Madame Goujon
Jacob Vernet Ports of France

Antoine- Louis Watteau  Persians; Sick cat; Pilgrimage to Cythera
Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller  Marie-Antoinette; Marie-Antoinette in hunting costume; Portraits of Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette; Later career in America
Pierre-Alexandre Wille, Danton on his way to execution; Sketch of Charlotte Corday