Category
page 1French art critics
Charles Baudelaire
French poet and critic (1821–1867)
Émile Zola
French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)

Octave Mirbeau
French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet (1880–1918)
Tristan Tzara
Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)

Joris-Karl Huysmans
French novelist and art critic (1848–1907)
Edmond de Goncourt
French writer and critic (1822–1896)
Émile Bernard
French painter (1868-1941)
Edmond François Valentin About
French writer and critic (1828-1885)
Jules de Goncourt
French writer (1830–1870)

Jean-Pierre Thiollet
French writer

Gustave Kahn
French Symbolist poet and art critic (1859–1936)
Paul Adam
French novelist (1862–1920)
Ambroise Vollard
French art dealer (1866-1939)
Félix Fénéon
French anarchist and art critic (1861-1944)
Marie Darrieussecq
French writer (born 1969)

André Salmon
French poet (1881–1969)
Léon Werth
French writer (1878–1955)
Albert Aurier
French artist and art collector (1865–1892)
Théophile Thoré-Bürger
French journalist and art critic (1807-1869)
Benjamin Fondane
Romanian-French writer (1898–1944)
René Huyghe
French art historian (1906-1997)
Catherine Millet
French art critic (born 1948)
Edmond Aman-Jean
French painter (1858-1936)
Charles Blanc
French art critic (1813-1882)
Champfleury
Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (17 September 1821, in Laon, Aisne – 6 December 1889, in Sèvres), who wrote under the name Champfleury (), was a French art critic and novelist, a prominent supporter of the Realist movement in painting and fiction.
Zacharie Astruc
French sculptor, painter, poet, and art critic (1833-1907)
Jean Cassou
French writer, art critic and poet (1897–1986)
Lucien Rebatet
French writer (1903–1972)
Armand Silvestre
French poet and conteur (1837-1901)
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
French sculptor (1822-1905)
Ricciotto Canudo
French writer (1877–1923)
Maurice Bardèche
French literary critic and neo-fascist writer

Claude Esteban
French poet (1935–2006)

Pierre Restany
French art historian and critic (1930–2003)
Jacques Dupin
French writer (1927–2012)
Jules-Antoine Castagnary
French art critic (1830–1888)
Louis Edmond Duranty
French novelist and art critic (1833–1880)
Louis Vauxcelles
French art critic (1870–1943)
Louis Viardot
French literary critic, impresario and translator (1800-1883)
Théodore Duret
French journalist, author and art critic (1838–1927)
Charles-Nicolas Cochin
French artist (1715-1790)
Camille Mauclair
French writer (1872-1945)
Bernard Noël
French writer and poet (1930–2021)
Octave Uzanne
French writer (1851–1931)
Georges Lafenestre
writer and poet from France
Frantz Jourdain
French architect (1847–1935)
Hugues Panassié
French critic and record producer (1912–1974)

Nicolas Bourriaud
French academic
Henry Houssaye
French historian (1848-1911)
Philippe Burty
French artist and writer (1830–1890)
Léonce Rosenberg
French art dealer and art historian (1879-1947)
Julien Leclercq
French poet and art collector (1865-1901)

Jean Baptiste Gustave Planche
French art historian (1808–1857)
Alain Jouffroy
French writer, poet and art critic (1928-2015)
Charles Ephrussi
critic, art historian, and art collector, member of the Ephrussi family (1849-1905)

Ernest Chesneau
French art historian and journalist
Anatole Jakovsky
French art critic (1907-1983)
Christian Zervos
French art collector (1889–1970)