1600–1699
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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
#PersonIn print, 1800–2019Echoed
- 1
Nicolas Poussin1594–1665 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists22 decades - 2
Georges de La Tour1593–1652 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists9 decades - 3
Claude Lorrain1600–1682 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists18 decades - 4
Charles Le Brun1619–1690 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists22 decades - 5
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Hyacinthe Rigaud1659–1743 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists19 decades - 6
Simon Vouet1590–1649 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists22 decades - 7
Pierre Mignard I1612–1695 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists22 decades - 8
Pierre Puget1620–1694 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists22 decades - 9
Nicolas de Largillière1656–1746 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists3 decades - 10
André Charles Boulle1642–1732 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists5 decades - 11
Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet1588–1665 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 12
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Marie Anne Mancini1649–1714 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 13
Antoine Coysevox1640–1720 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists8 decades - 14
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Sébastien Bourdon1616–1671 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists22 decades - 15AGAntoine Gombaud1607–1684 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades
- 16
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Claude Mellan1598–1688 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists19 decades - 17LDLaurent de La Hyre1606–1656 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists3 decades
- 18
François Girardon1628–1715 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists18 decades - 19
Gaspard Dughet1613–1675 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists9 decades - 20LMLouise Moillon1610–1696 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists4 decades
- 21
Nicolas Coustou1658–1733 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists19 decades - 22
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Antoine Coypel1661–1722 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists22 decades - 23
Nicolas Mignard1606–1668 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists18 decades - 24
Jacob van Loo1614–1670 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 25
Marion Delorme1613–1650 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists21 decades - 26
François de Troy1645–1730 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists18 decades - 27
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Jean Jouvenet1644–1717 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 28
Alexandre-François Desportes1661–1743 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 29
Élisabeth Sophie Chéron1648–1711 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 30
Trophime Bigot1579–1650 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists1 decades - 31
Noël Coypel1628–1707 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists20 decades - 32
Jean Bérain the Elder1640–1711 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 33
François Perrier1594–1649 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists19 decades - 34
Jean-Baptiste Santerre1651–1717 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists1 decades - 35
Louis de Boullogne1654–1733 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists4 decades - 36
Nicolas Tournier1590–1639 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists3 decades - 37
Jean-Baptiste Tuby1635–1700 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 38
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Lubin Baugin1612–1663 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists5 decades - 39
Sébastien Leclerc1637–1714 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists21 decades - 40
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Julie d'Angennes1607–1671 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists22 decades - 41
Jacques Bellange1575–1616 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists3 decades - 42
Jacques Carrey1649–1726 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists2 decades - 43
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer1636–1699 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists1 decades - 44
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Claude Lefèbvre1632–1675 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 45
Pierre Patel1604–1676 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists2 decades - 46
Pierre Gobert1662–1744 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists2 decades - 47
Suzanne du Plessis-Bellière1617–1705 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 48
François de Nomé1593–1644 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 49
Claude Deruet1588–1660 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists14 decades - 50
René-Antoine Houasse1645–1710 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists1 decades - 51
Martin Desjardins1637–1694 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists7 decades - 52
Israel Silvestre1621–1691 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists20 decades - 53
Joseph Parrocel1646–1704 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists7 decades - 54
Jean Le Pautre1618–1682 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists6 decades - 55
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Charles Errard1606–1689 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists13 decades - 56
Jean Baptiste de Champaigne1631–1681 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists6 decades - 57
François Chauveau1613–1676 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists16 decades - 58
Jacques Sarazin1592–1660 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists18 decades - 59
Jean Nocret1615–1672 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists1 decades - 60
Pierre-Étienne Monnot1657–1733 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 61
Marie Madeleine de Vignerot, Duchess of Aiguillon1604–1675 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 62
Jacques Fouquier1590–1655 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 63
Jacques d'Agar1640–1715 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 64
Étienne Allegrain1645–1736 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 65
Louis Le Nain1593–1648 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 66
Claude Audran III1658–1734 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 67
Pierre Lepautre1659–1744 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists3 decades - 68
Jacques Linard1597–1645 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists1 decades - 69LVLouis-Abraham van Loo1653–1712 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured—
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Louis Boullogne1609–1674 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 71
Jean Petitot1607–1691 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists12 decades - 72NCNicolas Cordier1567–1612 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured—
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Agostino Scilla1629–1700 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists19 decades - 74
Martin Fréminet1567–1619 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 75
Bon Boullogne1649–1717 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 76
Madeleine Boullogne1646–1710 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 77
Cecco Bravo1601–1661 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 78
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Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder1612–1689 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 79
Charles Mellin1597–1649 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 80PMPierre-Denis Martin1663–1742 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured—
- 81
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Michel Corneille the Elder1601–1664 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 82
Jean-Baptiste Martin1659–1735 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 83
Jean Varin1607–1672 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 84
Louis Laguerre1663–1721 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 85
Gilles Guérin1611–1678 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists13 decades - 86
Didier Barra1590–1656 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 87
Nicolas-Pierre Loir1624–1679 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 88
Henri Testelin1616–1695 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 89
Michel Dorigny1617–1665 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 90
Pierre Le Gros the Elder1629–1714 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 91
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Simon Renard de Saint-André1614–1677 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 92
Simon Guillain1581–1658 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists16 decades - 93
Marie Le Rochois1650–1728 · 🇫🇷 France · Artists0 decades - 94
Michel Corneille the Younger1642–1708 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 95
Claude-Guy Hallé1652–1736 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 96
Jean-Baptiste Belin1653–1715 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 97
Michel Anguier1612–1686 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 98
Nicolas de Plattemontagne1631–1706 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 99
Francesco Fracanzano1612–1656 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured— - 100
Marc Arcis1655–1739 · 🇫🇷 France · Artistsnot measured—
How this is measured
- Placing people in time. Each person belongs to the century in which they were most active — around age 35, and never after their death.
- Who ranks highest. Within a century, people are ranked where two independent signals agree: how many of the world’s Wikipedia language editions cover them, and how many people actually read about them. Article counts alone can be lifted by a person’s own circle; readers cannot.
- Fame in print. The curves count how often a name appears in Google Books from 1800 to 2019, as a share of all the words printed each year, in the person’s own language wherever that corpus exists. Those decades are over, so each measurement is made once and kept.
- What is left out. A lifetime is measured only from 1820, when there is enough print to judge; the five years after a death are skipped as obituaries; and a name shared with someone equally notable is credited to neither.