(b Saint-Quentin, Aisne, 30 Dec 1788; d Saint-Quentin, 1875). French painter and lithographer. He studied under David and Jean-Baptiste Regnault and established his reputation in Paris as a painter of portraits, genre scenes and historical subjects. From 1850 to 1855 he lived and worked in Mexico City, exhibiting annually at the Academia de Bellas Artes. Although he produced outstanding portraits, for example of General Mariano Arista (1851; Mexico City, Mus. N. Hist.), his most important works in Mexico were costumbrista genre scenes, of which he produced a considerable number. He presented his figures, which he painted in a Neo-classical style, as representative of different social types in suitable settings, helping to establish the terms for such subject-matter evolved by Agustín Arrieta and other 19th-century Mexican artists.