Pierre Antoine Poiteau

Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (23 March 1766 Âmbleny – 27 February 1854) was a French botanist, gardener and botanical artist.

There he studied the Linnaeus' Systema vegetabilium and the art of painting with the artist of the museum Gérard van Spaendonck (1746–1822) but his main influence is Redouté (1759–1840).

He published, in Paris in 1808 with Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775–1840) whom he met in Haiti, Flora Parisiensis secundum systema sexuale deposita et plantarum circa Lutetiam sponte nascentium descriptiones, icones.... After some years of free literary activities, he was appointed in 1815 head of the Royal tree nursery of Versailles.

In 1835, with Pierre-Jean-François Turpin, he published a new edition of the Traité des arbres fruitiers (Treatise of the fruit trees) by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700–1782) and, in 1846, Pomologie française.

A member of many scientific societies, Poiteau later became head of the museum of natural history, to which he offered all the animals and plants he had brought back from Guiana.