Philippe-Auguste Jeanron

Philippe-Auguste Jeanron
Photograph of Jeanron by Édouard Baldus
Born	(1809-05-10)10 May 1809 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Died	8 April 1877(1877-04-08) (aged 67) Château de Comborn, Corrèze, France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Painter, designer, lithographer and writer

Philippe-Auguste Jeanron (10 May 1809 – 8 April 1877) was a French painter, curator and writer. Throughout his life he was a passionate republican. His genre pictures typically depicted common people. He opposed the July Monarchy. After the February Revolution of 1848 was made head of National Museums and Director of the Louvre, where he introduced important innovations in the preservation, classification and arrangement of the collections. Later he became director of the museum in Marseilles.