Auguste Feyen-Perrin

François Nicolas Augustin Feyen, known as Auguste Feyen-Perrin (12 April 1826, Bey-sur-Seille - 14 October 1888, Paris) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator.

After some private lessons with Michel Martin Drolling, he qualified to enroll at the École des Beaux-arts in 1848, where he studied with Léon Cogniet and Adolphe Yvon.

Once, he gave up the chance to compete for the Prix de Rome to accept a commission painting theater curtains for the Opéra-Comique.

Despite this potentially compromising activity, he maintained his respectability with the Republican establishment and was decorated with the Légion d'Honneur in 1878.

[3] His tomb in Montmartre Cemetery was adorned with a monument by the sculptor, Ernest Guilbert [fr], in 1892.