(b Valence, c. 1636; d Rome, 12 March 1681). French painter and engraver, active in Italy. He probably learnt some rudimentary skills from his father, Jean Pinson, a wood-carver in Valence, before entering the studio of Jean Daret at Aix-en-Provence. By c. 1653 he had moved to Rome, where he became acquainted with French dealers. He won prizes in 1663 and 1664 at the Accademia di S Luca with his classicizing drawings of the Discovery of Romulus and Remus and the Sacrifice of Numa Pompilius (both Rome, Accad. N. S Luca). Pinson, however, never became a member of the Accademia. The engravings he made of the Assumption of the Virgin and the Dead Christ are all that survives of his decorations for the memorial services held at Giacomo degli Spagnoli in 1665 for Philip IV of Spain and at S Luigi dei Francesi the following year for Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV. On the death of Jean Daret in 1668 he returned to Aix to finish off Daret’s decorations on the theme of Justice in the Chamber of the Parlement of Provence in the Palais Comtal. This consisted of a ceiling painting (destr.) and six smaller paintings executed in 1671–4, three of which can be seen in the church of St Jean-de-Malte at Aix. For the chapel of the same building he painted a series of five scenes from the Life of the Virgin, including the Communion of Mary, now in the chapel of the Hôpital St Jacques at Aix.