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Mar 17, 1817 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 11 Jul 1881 (aged 64)
French painter
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About Auguste Gendron
- Auguste Gendron, also known as Ernest Augustin Gendron (17 March 1817 - 12 July 1881) was a French painter. Born in Paris in 1817, he learned painting under Paul Delaroche.
- Gendron painted mainly mythological subjects in an academic style, and exhibited at the Salon in Paris for many years.
- Between 1844 and 1847, he travelled in Italy with Delaroche and the younger painter Jean-Léon Gérôme.
- He won multiple medals at the Salon.
- In 1855 he was made a Knight in the Legion of Honour.A series of 12 panels, commissioned for the Palais d'Orsay, was lost after the building was demolished.
- Other paintings were commissioned for the State Ministry in Saint-Cloud, and for the Saint Catherine chapel in the St-Gervais-et-St-Protais church.
