Auguste-Émile Pinchart, or Émile-Auguste Pinchart (10 August 1842, Cambrai - November 1920, Tunis) was a French painter and designer who is best remembered for his Orientalist scenes.
He began as a student in the workshops of Jean-Léon Gérôme, then signed a contract with the art dealers, Goupil and Cie, to produce drawings for reproduction as prints, creating genre scenes of everyday life that proved to be quite popular.
His first exhibit at the Salon came in 1864.
During the Paris Commune, he became friends with the writer, Émile Bergerat, who recalls in his memoirs that Pinchart occasionally worked as a butcher, to help his fellow artists survive the siege.
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