← Fame through time1600-1699
The 17th century
Whose working lives fell in the 17th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 17th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Nicolas Poussin22 decades - 2
Georges de La Tour9 decades - 3
Claude Lorrain18 decades - 4
Charles Le Brun22 decades - 5
Hyacinthe Rigaud19 decades - 6
Simon Vouet22 decades - 7
Pierre Mignard I22 decades - 8
Pierre Puget22 decades - 9
André Charles Boulle5 decades - 10
Nicolas de Largillière3 decades - 11
Antoine Coysevox8 decades - 12
Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet0 decades - 13
Marie Anne Mancini0 decades - 14
Sébastien Bourdon22 decades - 15Antoine Gombaud0 decades
- 16
Claude Mellan19 decades - 17
François Girardon18 decades - 18Laurent de La Hyre3 decades
- 19Louise Moillon4 decades
- 20
Antoine Coypel22 decades - 21
Nicolas Coustou19 decades - 22
Nicolas Mignard18 decades - 23
Jean Jouvenet0 decades - 24
Gaspard Dughet9 decades - 25
François de Troy18 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.