Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, March 3, 1803–August 22, 1860, was a French painter and printmaker born in Paris. He studied with Étienne Bouhot and Abel de Pujol and developed his technique through independent study.

Decamps traveled to the eastern Mediterranean in 1828. His paintings of Ottoman subjects attracted attention at the Paris Salon of 1831. He also made hunting scenes, landscapes, animal subjects, drawings and lithographs.

Decamps worked in Paris and Fontainebleau and participated in the Exposition Universelle of 1855. He died at Fontainebleau in 1860. His works are held by the Wallace Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other public collections.

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