Édouard Pingret

[1][2] He was born at Saint-Quentin, Aisne, the son of a middle-class family in a mainly agricultural region, but also home to the celebrated General Cambronne and to illustrious notaries and Normandy judges.

During the French Revolution, his father was named a representative of the Department of Aisne at the Revolutionary Convention, which required him to maintain a secondary residence in the capital of France, Paris.

He produced outstanding portraits, including those of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1808) in France and General Mariano Arista (1851; Mexico City, Mus.

A fine example of his portrait work can be found in the collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation in Brooklyn, New York.

A painting titled Reading A Letter by Pingret is in the collection of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana.