Jules-Claude Ziegler (1804-1856) was a French painter, ceramicist and photographer of the French school. Ziegler was born in 1804 in Langres, Haute-Marne. He was appointed knight of the Légion d'Honneur in 1825. He was the pupil of Dominique Ingres and began to participate exhibitions at the Salon in 1832. The half-dome above the altar in the Église de la Madeleine is frescoed by Jules-Claude Ziegler.