Top 50 Painters in France

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest painters in France, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 94 painters tracked in France, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Frida Kahlo, Raphael and David Hockney lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4,689,520 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 353,863, and the largest, Frida Kahlo, reaches around 2,493,873 people in France. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with each painter, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across France and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Frida Kahlo	2,493,873	9.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
2	Raphael	1,254,489	18.9%	Painter	Arts & Culture
3	David Hockney	941,158	24.5%	Painter	Arts & Culture
4	Andy Warhol	884,726	7.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
5	Claude Monet	856,657	12.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
6	Keith Haring	794,224	10.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
7	Vincent van Gogh	753,396	3.9%	Painter	Arts & Culture
8	Pablo Picasso	654,941	6.5%	Painter	Arts & Culture
9	Leonardo da Vinci	639,643	2.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
10	Yann Arthus-Bertrand	526,371	64.0%	Painter	Literature
11	Pierre Soulages	401,870	80.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
12	Henri Matisse	347,677	11.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
13	Sandro Botticelli	346,091	52.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
14	Rembrandt	338,386	6.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
15	Gerhard Richter	316,056	12.9%	Painter	Arts & Culture
16	Michelangelo	312,316	2.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
17	Gustav Klimt	302,354	5.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
18	Gustave Courbet	281,668	44.9%	Painter	Arts & Culture
19	Hieronymus Bosch	278,950	10.0%	Painter	Politics & Society
20	Jackson Pollock	270,125	5.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
21	Jean Cocteau	260,992	42.8%	Painter	Literature
22	Paul Gauguin	240,457	12.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
23	Marc Chagall	234,799	11.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
24	Jeff Koons	218,764	10.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
25	Francis Bacon	207,132	8.1%	Painter	Politics & Society
26	Paul Klee	199,001	8.4%	Painter	Arts & Culture
27	Claude Lorrain	198,851	67.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
28	Jacques-Louis David	193,557	25.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
29	Edvard Munch	174,947	4.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
30	Takashi Murakami	173,919	5.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
31	Pierre Bonnard	170,796	46.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
32	Marcel Duchamp	165,062	15.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
33	Paul Cézanne	159,054	16.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
34	Roy Lichtenstein	154,733	7.3%	Painter	Arts & Culture
35	Max Ernst	153,160	11.9%	Painter	Literature
36	René Magritte	152,013	16.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
37	Fernand Léger	146,368	61.1%	Painter	Arts & Culture
38	Salvador Dalí	143,662	5.3%	Painter	Arts & Culture
39	Piet Mondrian	142,706	7.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
40	Damien Hirst	137,865	6.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
41	Pierre-Auguste Renoir	132,069	17.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture
42	Luke the Evangelist	121,120	2.3%	Painter	Politics & Society
43	H. R. Giger	117,176	5.3%	Painter	Literature
44	Mark Rothko	112,993	6.0%	Painter	Arts & Culture
45	Gustave Doré	106,270	22.3%	Painter	Literature
46	Invader (artist)	104,146	16.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
47	Jan van Eyck	99,809	13.8%	Painter	Arts & Culture
48	Albrecht Dürer	94,907	7.6%	Painter	Arts & Culture
49	Edgar Degas	94,396	7.2%	Painter	Arts & Culture
50	Joan Miró	87,489	5.7%	Painter	Arts & Culture