ÉDOUARD PINGRET (Saint-Quentin, 1788-1875) A CALABRIAN SHEPHERD Paper Bearing on the reverse a salon booklet label "1549 un pâtre calabrais" (1549 a Calabrian shepherd) A calabrian shepherd, paper 35 x 25,50 CM - 13,8 x 10 IN. EXHIBITION Probably Salon of 1864, n° 1549. Born into a wealthy family, Pingret trained with Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Baptiste Régnault, two neoclassical painters, then at the Saint-Luc Academy in Rome and exhibited at the Salon from 1810. Appointed professor of fine arts in his home town of Saint-Quentin, he was a travelling painter and, every summer, went to a different region to describe customs and costumes, from Switzerland to Italy or the Pyrenees and Mexico (between 1850 and 1855).