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Top 20 best-known painters in the world · 🇫🇷 France

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Ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about the person (Wikidata site links): a measure of how widely known someone is around the world, not of skill. It favours people from the past and from countries with many Wikipedia editions. Painters are people Wikidata lists with the occupation painter whose one-line English description calls them a painter or artist and not an actor, writer, poet, politician, architect, animator or singer, so famous people who also painted (presidents, novelists, film makers) are left out.

  1. 1

    Henri Matisse

    French artist (1869–1954)

    181 languages

  2. 2

    Claude Monet

    French painter (1840–1926)

    159 languages

  3. 3

    Paul Cézanne

    French painter (1839–1906)

    139 languages

  4. 4

    Paul Gauguin

    French painter and printmaker (1848–1903)

    133 languages

  5. 5

    Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

    French painter (1780–1867)

    133 languages

  6. 6

    Eugène Delacroix

    French painter (1798–1863)

    122 languages

  7. 7

    Edgar Degas

    French Impressionist artist (1834–1917)

    117 languages

  8. 8

    Édouard Manet

    French painter (1832–1883)

    116 languages

  9. 9

    Auguste Renoir

    Pierre-Auguste Renoir

    French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)

    115 languages

  10. 10

    Vassily Kandinsky

    Wassily Kandinsky

    avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866–1944)

    103 languages

  11. 11

    Marc Chagall

    Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)

    103 languages

  12. 12 J

    Jean-Joseph Sanfourche

    French artist (1929-2010)

    98 languages

  13. 13

    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

    French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)

    97 languages

  14. 14

    Jacques-Louis David

    French painter (1748–1825)

    94 languages

  15. 15

    Camille Pissarro

    Danish-French painter (1830-1903)

    93 languages

  16. 16

    Nicolas Poussin

    French painter (1594-1665)

    91 languages

  17. 17

    Marcel Duchamp

    French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)

    91 languages

  18. 18

    Gustave Courbet

    French painter (1819–1877)

    88 languages

  19. 19

    Georges Braque

    French painter and sculptor (1882-1963)

    86 languages

  20. 20

    Louis Daguerre

    French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)

    83 languages

Comment c'est mesuré

Wikidata: occupation painter (Q1028181), English description with painter or artist and without actor, writer, poet, politician, architect, animator or singer, 40 or more site links; country of citizenship gives the drill-down.

Références

  1. Wikidata query: painters by Wikipedia language editions, Wikidata (CC0). Checked 2026-10-20 05:10 UTC.