Auguste Pequegnot

• Name — Auguste Péquégnot • Birth Name — Auguste Péquégnot • Born — 5 October 1819 • Birthplace — Versailles, Yvelines, Kingdom of France • Died — 17 December 1878 • Place of death — Paris, Île-de-France, French Third Republic • Resting Place — Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, France • Occupation — * Painter • artist • engraver • professor

Péquégnot was born in Versailles to Jean Baptiste Péquégnot, an adjunct professor at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, a military academy, and Émilie Désirée (née Demarquay). He learned from his master Eugène Cicéri and began to exhibit his works at his art gallery in 1849. In 1856, he married Louise Clémentine Houssard (1821–1905). In attendance of the wedding were Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse and Augustin Challamel. He later became a professor for drawing studies at the École Commerciale on Avenue Trudaine in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. He died aged 59 on December 17, 1878, in his residence at Rue d'Orsel in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. He was buried at Cimetière de Montmartre.