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Français

Artist

WA-00010620

Painting

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None documented

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70%

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WikidataQ943826

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BiographyMuseum· 80%
Birth yearMuseum· 80%
Death yearMuseum· 80%
NationalityMuseum· 80%
Primary mediumMuseum· 80%
Profile imageMuseum· 80%

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Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%

About

Why this artist matters now

Louis Français was a French landscape painter, lithographer, and illustrator whose commercial success in the 19th century rested on meticulous pen-and-ink drawings and prints. His prolific work as an illustrator appeared in roughly forty books and periodicals from the 1830s onward, characterized by technical precision and economical line.

Source: Museum · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (7)

The Vulture

1904 · etching

Sheet: 60.8 x 44.4 cm (23 15/16 x 17 1/2 in.); Platemark: 36.4 x 26.5 cm (14 5/16 x 10 7/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

View of the Château of Pierrefonds

1865 · pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, and graphite, heightened with white gouache

Sheet: 42.2 x 56.2 cm (16 5/8 x 22 1/8 in.); Matted: 54.6 x 67.3 cm (21 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Banks of the Seine

1850 · Lithograph on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 14.8 × 20.3 cm (5 7/8 × 8 in.); Sheet: 27.8 × 40.1 cm (11 × 15 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Paysage

1845 · Pastel on blue-gray laid paper with blue fibers

21.5 × 29.5 cm (8 1/2 × 11 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

View of the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli

1844 · Gouache, with pen and brown ink and traces of graphite, on blue wove paper

28.6 × 20 cm (11 5/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

View of the Louvre from the Side of St. Germain l'Auxerrois

1834 · Aquatint on paper

Image: 16 × 24.5 cm (6 5/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Plate: 23.4 × 29.2 cm (9 1/4 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet: 27 × 38 cm (10 11/16 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

After the Shower

1830 · lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art

Artwork sources (2)

7 published of 7 catalogued · 6 with image

Art Institute Chicago
4 published3 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
3 published3 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)

3 entries · 1 sources

After the Shower
1830 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
View of the Château of Pierrefonds
1865 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Vulture
1904 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Images

16 assets

Art Institute of Chicago