François Barthélémy Augustin Desmoulins was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator born in 1788 and died in 1856. He specialized in genre scenes, portraits, and historical paintings. From 1819, he was a pioneer of the neo-Gothic style, also known as troubadour art, an aspect of Romantic painting that exalts the Middle Ages, gallant love, and troubadour scenes.