List of French engravers

This is a chronological list of French engravers.

Renaissance

 * Geoffroy Tory (1480–1533), humanist and engraver
 * Jean Rabel (1545–1603), painter and engraver
 * Jean Duvet (c. 1485–c. 1570), engraver
 * Jean Cousin the Younger (1490–1561), painter, engraver, sculptor
 * Thomas de Leu (1560–1612), engraver
 * Jacques Bellange (1575–1616), engraver
 * Daniel Rabel (1578–1637), painter and engraver

17th-century

 * François Perrier (1590–1650), painter and engraver
 * Jacques Callot (1592–1635), engraver
 * Claude Mellan (1598–1688), painter, draughtsman and engraver
 * Balthasar Moncornet (1600–1668), painter and engraver
 * Abraham Bosse (1602–1676), engraver
 * Jean Varin (1604–1672), sculptor, engraver, medallist
 * Nicolas Robert (1610–1684), miniaturist and engraver
 * François Chauveau (1613–1676), draughtsman, engraver and painter
 * Michel Dorigny (1617–1663), painter and engraver
 * Jean Le Pautre (1618–1682), draughtsman and engraver
 * Jean Marot (1619–1679), draughtsman and engraver
 * Albert Flamen (1620–1674), engraver
 * Israël Silvestre (1621–1691), engraver
 * Robert Nanteuil (1623–1678), engraver, draughtsman and pastelist
 * François de Poilly (1623-1693), engraver
 * Gabriel Perelle (1604–1677), engraver
 * Gérard Audran (1640–1703), engraver
 * Jean Mauger (1648–1712), medallist and engraver on copperplate
 * Gérard Edelinck (1649–1707), engraver
 * Jacques Restout (1650–1701), painter
 * Louis Dorigny (1654–1742), painter and engraver
 * Eustache Restout (1655–1743), architect, engraver and painter

18th-century

 * Nicolas Dorigny (1658–1746), painter and engraver
 * Pierre Drevet (1664–1738), engraver
 * Étienne Jehandier Desrochers (1668–1741), engraver
 * François Chéreau (1680-1729), engraver
 * Charles Dupuis (1685–1742), engraver
 * Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755), painter and engraver
 * Jacques Chéreau (1688–1776), engraver and publisher
 * Anne Claude Philippe de Tubieres de Grimoard de Pestels de Levis, Comte de Caylus (1692–1765)
 * Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774), bookseller and engraver
 * Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (1695–1771), engraver
 * Pierre Imbert Drevet (1697–1739), engraver
 * Hubert-Francois Bourguignon Gravelot (1699–1773), engraver
 * Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774), architect and engraver
 * François Boucher (1703–1770), painter, engraver
 * Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (1707–1783), engraver
 * Noël Hallé (1711–1781), painter and engraver
 * Pierre-Simon Fournier (1712–1768), engraver
 * Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714–1789), painter, engraver, draughtsman
 * Jean-Joseph Balechou (1715–1765), engraver
 * Jacques Guay (1715–1787), engraver
 * Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715–1790), engraver and draughtsman
 * Joseph-Marie Vien (1716–1809), painter, draughtsman and engraver
 * Carmontelle (1717–1806), painter, draughtsman, engraver
 * Claude-Henri Watelet (1718–1786)
 * Étienne Ficquet (1719–1794), engraver
 * Charles Eisen (1720–1778), painter and engraver
 * Charles Germain de Saint Aubin (1721–1786), engraver
 * Pierre-François Basan (1723–1797), engraver
 * Jacques Aliamet (1726–1788), engraver
 * Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731–1797), engraver
 * Hubert Robert (1733–1808), painter, engraver
 * Benoît-Louis Prévost (1735 or 1747–1804), engraver
 * Jean-Pierre Houël (1735–1813), engraver, draughtsman and painter
 * Simon Charles Miger (1736–1828), engraver
 * Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736–1810), engraver
 * Pierre-François Laurent (1739-1809), engraver
 * Jean-Michel Moreau (1741–1814), engraver
 * François-Rolland Elluin (1745–1810), engraver
 * Gérard van Spaendonck (1746–1822), painter and engraver
 * Vivant Denon (1747–1825), diplomat and administrator, writer and engraver
 * Augustin Dupré (1748–1833), medallist and engraver
 * Charles Eschard (1748–1810), painter, draughtsman and engraver
 * P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel (c. 1750–?), draughtsman and engraver
 * Michel-François Dandré-Bardon (1752–1809), painter, draughtsman and engraver
 * Philibert-Louis Debucourt (1755–1832), painter and engraver
 * Charles Clément Balvay (1756–1822), engraver
 * François-Nicolas Martinet (c. 1760–1800), engineer and engraver

19th-century (Romanticism and Impressionism)

 * Jean Achard (1807–1884), painter and engraver
 * Théodore Basset de Jolimont (1787-1854)
 * Louis Léopold Boilly (1761–1845), painter, draughtsman and engraver
 * Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761–1824), painter, engraver
 * Louis-Pierre Baltard (1764–1846), architect, engraver and painter
 * Pierre Audouin (1768–1822), engraver
 * Louis-François Lejeune (1775–1848), painter and engraver
 * Pierre Bouillon (1776–1831), engraver and painter
 * Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (1777–1837), painter, draughtsman and engraver
 * Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers (1779–1857), engraver
 * Henri Laurent (1779-1844), engraver
 * Théodore Richomme (1785–1849), engraver
 * Auguste-François Michaut (1785–1849), engraver, medallist, sculptor
 * François Forster (1790–1872), engraver
 * Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792–1845), painter and engraver
 * Léon Cogniet (1794–1880), painter, portraitist and lithographer
 * Louis-Henri Brévière (1797–1869), engraver
 * Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont (1797–1892), engraver and draughtsman
 * Charles Philipon (1800–1862), draughtsman, lithographer, journalist and editor
 * Achille Devéria (1800–1857), painter, engraver
 * Bernard-Romain Julien (1802–1871), lithographer
 * Tony Johannot (1803–1852), engraver, illustrator and painter
 * Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard (Grandville), (1803–1847), engraver
 * Auguste Raffet (1804–1860), draughtsman and engraver
 * Eugène Isabey (1804–1886), painter, watercolorist and lithographer
 * Espérance Langlois (1805–1864), painter and engraver
 * Louis Godefroy Jadin (1805–1882), animal and landscape painter
 * Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), painter, engraver
 * Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), lithographer, draughtsman, illustrator and painter
 * Polyclès Langlois (1813–1872), engraver, draughtsman and painter
 * Charles Blanc (1813–1882), historian, art critic and engraver
 * Charles Jacque (1813–1894), animal painter and engraver
 * Charles Marville (1816–1879), painter, engraver, photographer
 * Alphonse Leroy (1820–1902), engraver
 * Charles Meryon (1821–1868), engraver
 * Hector Giacomelli (1822–1904), painter, watercolorist, illustrator and engraver
 * François Chifflart (1825–1901), painter and draughtsman
 * Pierre-Auguste Lamy (1827–1880), engraver, lithographer and watercolorist
 * Léopold Flameng (1831–1911), engraver, illustrator and painter
 * Gustave Doré (1832–1883), engraver
 * Edgar Degas (1834–1917), painter, engraver, sculptor and photographer
 * James Tissot (1836–1902), painter and etcher
 * Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), painter and lithographer
 * Jules Chéret (1836–1932), painter, poster artist and lithographer
 * Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), painter and engraver
 * Adolphe Lalauze (1838–1905), illustrator, painter and engraver
 * Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839–1909), engraver
 * Odilon Redon (1840–1916), painter, engraver and pastelist
 * Fortuné Méaulle (1844–1901), wood-engraver and writer
 * Alfred Johannot (1800–1836), engraver and painter

19th-century (Impression and Fauvism)

 * Henri Thiriat (1843–1926), engraver
 * Léon Barillot (1844–1929), engraver and painter
 * Victor Gustave Lhuillier (1844–1889), engraver and etcher
 * Eugène Grasset (1845–1917), engraver, poster artist and decorator
 * Pierre Georges Jeanniot (1848–1934), painter, draughtsman, watercolorist, and engraver
 * Eugène Carrière (1849–1906), painter and lithographer
 * Auguste-Louis Lepère (1849–1918), painter and engraver
 * Jean-Louis Forain (1852–1931), painter, illustrator and engraver
 * Adolphe Willette (1857–1926), illustrator, caricaturist and engraver
 * Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859–1923), painter, draughtsman and lithographer
 * George Auriol (1863–1938), journalist, poet, painter and engraver
 * Henri Bellery-Desfontaines (1867–1909), painter, illustrator, poster artist, lithographer, draughtsman, architect and engraver
 * Edgar Chahine (1874–1947), painter, illustrator and engraver
 * Charles Dufresne (1876–1938), painter, engraver and decorator

20th-century (before World War II)

 * Abel Mignon (1861–1936), engraver
 * Allan Österlind (1855–1938), painter and engraver
 * Malo-Renault (1870–1938) illustrator, color engraver and pastelist
 * Jacques Villon (1875–1963), painter and engraver
 * Adolphe Beaufrère (1876–1960), painter and engraver
 * Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), painter, draughtsman, illustrator, ceramist, decorator and engraver
 * Henry Cheffer (1880–1957), painter and engraver
 * Raoul Serres (1881–1971), illustrator and engraver
 * Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), painter and engraver
 * Jean Metzinger (1883–1956), painter, engraver

20th-century (post-World War II)

 * Henri-Georges Adam (1904–1967), engraver and sculptor
 * Pierre Albuisson (1952–), draughtsman and engraver
 * Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), sculptor, photographer, engraver
 * Jean Bertholle (1909–1996), painter
 * Érik Desmazières (1948-), engraver
 * Johnny Friedlaender (1912–1992), painter and engraver
 * Henri Goetz (1909–1989), painter and engraver
 * Cécile Guillame (1933–2004), engraver
 * Max Leognany (1913–1994), painter, engraver, sculptor
 * Ève Luquet (1954–), designer and engraver
 * Jeanne Malivel (1895–1926), decorator and engraver
 * Alfred Manessier (1911–1993), painter
 * Gen Paul (1898–1975), painter, engraver
 * René Quillivic (1925–), sculptor and engraver
 * Alfred-Georges Regner (1902–1987), painter and engraver
 * Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921–), painter, engraver and sculptor
 * Raoul Ubac (1910–1985), painter
 * Zao Wou-Ki (1921–2013), photographer, calligrapher, sculptor, engraver