Alexis Joseph Pérignon was is a French painter .

Alexis Joseph Pérignon is the son of the painter Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, known as “Pérignon the younger” (1785-1864) and of Marie Josèphe Clément Paillet. His father, who specialized in genre and history painting and exhibited in Paris from 1814 to 1850, was himself the son of the painter Alexis-Nicolas Pérignon, known as “Pérignon the elder” (1726-1782).

Alexis Joseph Pérignon started with his father before joining the studio of Antoine-Jean Gros where he completed his apprenticeship, before settling as a restorer of old paintings. A Painter of genre scenes and horses, he also painted orientalist subjects. He exhibited in Paris at the Salon from 1834 to 1881 obtaining a third class medal in 1836, a second class in 1838 and a first class in 1844. His talent as a portrait painter, working in the spirit of Ingres, was very quickly recognized. In 1856 he became concurrently director of the School of Fine Arts in Dijon and the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon until he resigned in 1859. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1856 (officer in 1870).