Jean Leymarie (art historian)

Jean Leymarie (17 July 1919, Gagnac-sur-Cère, Lot – 9 March 2006) was a French art historian.

Born into a peasant family, he pursued his studies in Toulouse then Paris.

After the Second World War, he began his museum career.

He taught for a long time at the Swiss universities of Lausanne and Geneva and published several works on the history of art.

He remains one of those who imposed 20th-century painting on French national museums.