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Francine Van Hove is a French artist born in 1942 in Saint-Mandé, France. She studied fine arts in Paris. After her studies, Francine taught art at the Lyceum to young girls in Strasbourg, but one year later she quit and returned to Paris in 1964, where she lives and works to this day. Francine van Hove is known for her paintings of half-naked young women. The artist's world is inhabited by romantic, gentle, dreamy girls with carefully drawn realistic body plastics. She draws only real people. These are her daughters, friends of daughters, in general all those who come to their house. Her graphic and pictorial technical reminiscent of Italian Renaissance artists and Flemish artists of the 16th and 17th centuries.