Auguste Gendron, also known as Ernest Augustin Gendron (17 March 1817 - 12 July 1881) was a French painter. Born in Paris in 1817, he learned painting under Paul Delaroche. Gendron painted mainly mythological subjects in an academic style, and exhibited at the Salon in Paris for many years. Between 1844 and 1847, he travelled in Italy with Delaroche and the younger painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. He won multiple medals at the Salon. In 1855 he was made a Knight in the Legion of Honour.