Trending Painters in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed painters on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Adolf Hitler. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
1,518,650
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 (1889–1945)
52,912
views
views
2
Michelangelo
Italian artist and architect (1475-1564)
51,565
views
views
3
Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
44,830
views
views
4
Charles III
King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948)
43,648
views
views
5
Sam Ringer
French painter (1918-1986)
41,757
views
views
6
Pierre Bonnard
French painter and printmaker (1867-1947)
41,688
views
views
7
Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter (1907–1954)
40,995
views
views
8
George W. Bush
43rd President of the United States (2001–2009)
36,304
views
views
9
Sylvester Stallone
American actor and filmmaker (born 1946)
34,082
views
views
10
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen (1946–1991)
33,201
views
views
11
Amanda Lear
French singer, actress, television presenter
31,569
views
views
12
Francis I of France
King of France from 1515 to 1547 (1494-1547)
30,573
views
views
13
Serge Gainsbourg
French singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director (1928–1991)
29,961
views
views
14
Claude Monet
French painter (1840–1926)
29,594
views
views
15
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
28,429
views
views
16
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
26,542
views
views
17
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
25,770
views
views
18
Pablo Picasso
Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
20,841
views
views
19
David Bowie
English musician and actor (1947–2016)
19,877
views
views
20
Jared Leto
American actor, singer, musician and songwriter (born 1971)
18,492
views
views
21
Paul McCartney
English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)
17,987
views
views
22
John Wayne Gacy
American serial killer (1942–1994)
17,917
views
views
23
Andy Warhol
American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)
17,693
views
views
24
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
17,518
views
views
25
Anthony Hopkins
Welsh actor (born 1937)
16,595
views
views
26
Marthe Bonnard
French painter and wife of Pierre Bonnard (1869-1942)
15,770
views
views
27
Jim Carrey
Canadian-American actor and comedian (born 1962)
15,730
views
views
28
David Lynch
American filmmaker (1946–2025)
15,446
views
views
29
Michael Lonsdale
French actor (1931–2020)
15,271
views
views
30
Paul Cézanne
French painter (1839–1906)
14,385
views
views
31
Salvador Dalí
Spanish artist (1904–1989)
14,054
views
views
32
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
13,743
views
views
33
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
French sculptor and painter (1834–1904)
13,473
views
views
34
Viggo Mortensen
American actor
13,355
views
views
35
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861 (1819–1861)
13,065
views
views
36
Banksy
English graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
12,957
views
views
37
Camille Claudel
French sculptor (1864–1943)
12,811
views
views
38
Caravaggio
Italian painter (1571–1610)
12,625
views
views
39
Jacopo Tintoretto
Renaissance painter (1518/1519–1594)
12,575
views
views
40
Boris Vian
French writer and musician (1920–1959)
12,531
views
views
41
René Magritte
Belgian surrealist (1898–1967)
12,270
views
views
42
Yves Saint Laurent
French fashion designer (1936–2008)
12,121
views
views
43
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)
12,071
views
views
44
Sarah Bernhardt
French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)
12,047
views
views
45
Le Corbusier
Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886–1965)
11,720
views
views
46
Lucy Liu
American actress (born 1968)
11,603
views
views
47
Henri Matisse
French artist (1869–1954)
11,579
views
views
48
Pascal Obispo
French singer, producer and songwriter
11,497
views
views
49
Wilhelm II
as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918 (1859–1941)
11,210
views
views
50
Niki de Saint Phalle
plastician, painter and sculptor (1930–2002)
11,189
views
views
51
Jean Cocteau
French writer and film director (1889–1963)
11,082
views
views
52
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
10,878
views
views
53
Laurent Fabius
87th Prime Minister of France (born 1946)
10,703
views
views
54
Paul Éluard
French poet (1895–1952)
10,681
views
views
55
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American artist (1960–1988)
10,586
views
views
56
Eva Gonzalès
French painter (1849-1883)
10,312
views
views
57
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
10,172
views
views
58
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10,084
views
views
59
Walt Disney
American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
9,946
views
views
60
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
9,786
views
views
61
Marc Chagall
Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)
9,526
views
views
62
Anouk Grinberg
French actress
9,525
views
views
63
Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (1969–2026)
9,311
views
views
64
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese artist (1929–2026)
9,272
views
views
65
Hildegard of Bingen
German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179)
9,251
views
views
66
François-Marie Banier
French playwright, photographer, actor and writer
9,216
views
views
67
François Lamore
American painter
9,153
views
views
68
Jean Marais
French actor and theatre director (1913-1998)
9,143
views
views
69
Ringo Starr
British musician, drummer for the Beatles (born 1940)
9,015
views
views
70
Gustave Courbet
French painter (1819–1877)
8,928
views
views
71
Georges Moustaki
Greek-French singer (1934–2013)
8,697
views
views
72
Philippe Berry
French sculptor (1956–2019)
8,602
views
views
73
Marie de Villepin
French artist, actress and model
8,446
views
views
74
Jean-Noël Vandaele
French painter
8,379
views
views
75
Margrethe II of Denmark
Queen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024 (born 1940)
8,234
views
views
76
Marcel Marceau
French actor and mime artist (1923–2007)
7,991
views
views
77
Marko Rupnik
Slovenian priest, theologian, mosaic artist and former Jesuit (born 1954)
7,977
views
views
78
Rosa Bonheur
French artist (1822-1899)
7,933
views
views
79
Alexandra Grant
American artist (*1973)
7,913
views
views
80
Akira Kurosawa
Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
7,904
views
views
81
Charlélie Couture
French-American singer and artist
7,885
views
views
82
Paul Gauguin
French painter and printmaker (1848–1903)
7,880
views
views
83
Théophile Gautier
French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic (1811–1872)
7,842
views
views
84
Édouard Manet
French painter (1832–1883)
7,726
views
views
85
Wassily Kandinsky
avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866–1944)
7,720
views
views
86
Eugène Delacroix
French painter (1798–1863)
7,614
views
views
87
Yoko Ono
Japanese artist and activist based in the United States (born 1933)
7,302
views
views
88
Charles Trenet
French singer-songwriter
7,212
views
views
89
Serge Reggiani
French singer and actor (1922–2004)
7,179
views
views
90
Alphonse Mucha
Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1860–1939)
7,128
views
views
91
Berthe Morisot
French painter (1841-1895)
7,108
views
views
92
Raphael
Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
7,060
views
views
93
Keith Haring
American artist and social activist (1958-1990)
6,972
views
views
94
Gustav Klimt
Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)
6,968
views
views
95
Otto Dix
German painter and printmaker (1891–1969)
6,942
views
views
96
Prosper Mérimée
French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)
6,917
views
views
97
Gary Ridgway
American serial killer
6,861
views
views
98
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
6,839
views
views
99
Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)
6,810
views
views
100
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
member of the royal family of France, Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723 (1674–1723)
6,601
views
views
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