Françoise Adnet (30 June 1924 – 9 March 2014) was a French figurative painter born in Paris.

Her works, created over a period of 50 years, have been exhibited many times and are held are in various museums and private collections.

Adnet was encouraged by her mother to continue her practice, especially during the family's annual trips to Vezelay.

In 1948 she was asked by the French government to join a cultural tour to entertain the occupying troops present in the city.

[1] Adnet was known for her versatility in performing works of Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Schubert, and Mozart.

She was identified with figurative reaction–opposed to abstraction–and was part of the "misérabiliste" movement, which included Buffet, Jansem, and Michel de Gallard among others.

Adnet described her artistic process as "a long exercise of observation, patience, composition, implementation and harmonization.

"[1] The work reminded her of her efforts to perfect her skills at piano, and she often incorporated the same techniques, stating her artwork had "harmony, rigor, consonances and dissonances.