Auguste François-Marie GORGUET, born September 27, 1862 in Paris, the city where he died April 29, 1927, is a French painter, draftsman, engraver and poster designer. A student at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, Auguste François-Marie GORGUET received lessons from the painters Gustave BOULANGER, Jean-Léon GEROME, Léon BONNAT and Aimé MOROT. Under the name of Auguste François GORGUET, he exhibited at the Salon from 1885 and his work was awarded in Chicago in 1892. His work as a painter (paintings, panels, ceilings) is in the vein of the Symbolist movement soon overtaken by Art Nouveau. He was quickly put in contact with the world of opera, thus illustrating numerous posters, including "Théodora" reproduced in the review "Les Maîtres de affiche". Illustrator of books like "Sapho" or "Jack: mœurs contemporaines" by Alphonse DAUDET (1897-1898), "Le Lys rouge" (A. ROMAGNOL, 1903) and "La Comédie de celui qui épousa une femme muette" Anatole FRANCE, but also the national editions of Victor HUGO, he engraved numerous financial titles (stocks, bonds, loans) and banknotes. In 1901, he produced an artistic postcard for the hundred collection. Between 1914 and 1916, he supervised with Pierre CARRIER-BELLEUSE, the "Panthéon de la guerre", a large circular panoramic painting designed with the assistance of twenty artists, exhibited in a building specially built for her next to the Hôtel des Invalides. Inaugurated by Raymond POINCARE on October 19, 1918, the building that housed it was destroyed in 1960, and the paint dispersed. He was professor of drawings and laureate of the Institute. His studio in 1896 was located in Paris, at 6, rue Boissonade.