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Jef Aérosol is the pseudonym of Jean-François Perroy, a French stencil graffiti artist. He has been an urban art proponent in France since 1982, and is a contemporary of Blek le Rat and Speedy Graphito.

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Hippolyte-Dominique Berteaux was a French painter who specialized in murals and portraits.

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Maurice Boitel was a French painter.

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Guillaume Bottazzi is a French visual artist.

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Pierre-Nicolas Brisset was a French painter and muralist in the Academic style. He is best known for his mythological, historical and religious scenes, but also painted landscapes and portraits.

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Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin was a French painter born and raised in Paris, where he became a prominent academic painter and a teacher. He is principally known for the links he created between French and Japanese art, in both painting and ceramics.

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Darco is a graffiti-artist who lives and works in Paris (France).

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Olivier Debré (1920–1999) was a French abstract painter.

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Bruno Dutot is a French-born Australian painter, known especially for his public mural of 'Oucha' a woman with cat in Edgecliff, Sydney.

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Félix-Henri Giacomotti was a French painter and muralist of Italian ancestry who specialized in historical and religious works.

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Frédéric Gracia is a French artist, who is known for his trompe-l'œil murals, often in a hyperrealistic style and often on large exterior surfaces such as water towers and industrial chimneys. He calls himself a peintre-alpiniste (climber-painter) because he uses rope access techniques such as rappelling to create large outdoor murals.

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Joseph Benoît Guichard was a French painter and art teacher who worked in a variety of styles.

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Jacques-Ferdinand Humbert was a French painter who specialized in portraits and historical scenes.

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Charles François Hutin was a French history and figure painter, engraver and sculptor. He became director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.

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Louis Lafitte was a French painter, designer, illustrator and muralist.

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Gustave Lassalle-Bordes was a French painter in the Romantic style, known primarily for historical scenes.

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Jean-Paul Laurens was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style.

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Henri Lehmann was a German-born French historical painter and portraitist.

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Dominique Antoine Jean-Baptiste Magaud was a French painter, muralist and art school director.

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Louis Nicolas Matout was a French painter and muralist. He was known primarily for cityscapes with figures and genre scenes.

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Isaac Moillon was a French Baroque painter of scenes from mythology and the Bible. He also designed tapestries. His work was forgotten after his death, until interest was revived in the 1980s.

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Louis de Silvestre was a French portrait and history painter. He was court painter to King Augustus II of Poland, and director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.