Édouard Henri Théophile PINGRET, born in Saint-Quentin on December 30, 1785, died in Paris on July 3, 1869, is a French painter and lithographer. Édouard PINGRET is the son of a middle-class bourgeois family. His father, Antoine Adrien, master carpenter in Saint-Quentin, is the husband of Marie Josèphe BACHELET, sister of Georges Quentin BACHELET, architect of this city and godfather of the child. On August 1, 1832, Edouard PINGRET married in Paris, Victoire BROUET, from Sens, daughter of a cooper. His nephew Arnold Joseph PINGRET (1798-1862), who for his part became a medal engraver in Paris. Edouard PINGRET's father is said to be linked to the upper echelons of the Protestant aristocracy and is a lawyer. During the Revolution, he was appointed representative for the department of Aisne at the Convention. So he has a "second home" in Paris. Édouard PINGRET studied painting with Jacques-Louis DAVID and with Jean-Baptiste REGNAULT, then at the Saint-Luc academy in Rome. In 1808, he painted a portrait of Napoleon I. From 1810, he exhibited at the Salons in Paris. In 1831, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. In 1851, he moved to Mexico City, where he stayed until 1855. He exhibited at the Academia de Bellas Artes. He produced many genre scenes, Mexican interiors that would make him famous throughout America. In 1851, he painted the portrait of General Mariano ARISTA. Lithographer, he produced an important series of characters and costumes from the French Pyrenees, which were very successful and which are still reproduced.