François de Hérain
François de Hérain (10 November 1877 – 28 May 1962) was a French painter, sculptor and engraver who had initially worked as a doctor. He did many paintings of scenes in French Algeria and Morocco and authored several art books. He won the Prix Charles Blanc from the Académie française for Peintres et sculpteurs écrivains d’art in 1961.
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François de Hérain
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- Name
- François de Hérain
- Born
- 10 November 1877
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 28 May 1962
- Occupation
- Painter, sculptor, engraver
- Spouse
- Eugénie Hardon
- Full name
- François Marie Gaston Dehérain.
- Nationality
- France
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · Officer of the Legion of Honour · Prix Charles Blanc
- Languages
- French
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François de Hérain (10 November 1877 – 28 May 1962) was a French painter, sculptor and engraver who had initially worked as a doctor. He did many paintings of scenes in French Algeria and Morocco and authored several art books. He won the Prix Charles Blanc from the Académie française for Peintres et sculpteurs écrivains d’art in 1961.
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His wife, Eugénie Hardon, later married Marshal Philippe Pétain. He lived in Paris and Les Baux de Provence, where a square, Place François de Hérain, was named in his honour.
The recorded working language is French. Work by François de Hérain is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Musée Carnavalet and Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Prix Charles Blanc.
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• Name — François de Hérain • Born — 10 November 1877 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 28 May 1962 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Painter, sculptor, engraver • Spouse — Eugénie Hardon • Children — Pierre de Hérain • Parents — Pierre Paul Dehérain
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8th arrondissement of Paris.
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- 1.François de Hérain (1877-1962). Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- 2.Atkin, Nicolas. Petain. Routledge, 2014;
- 3.KARTHALA Editions. Présences françaises outre-mer, XVIe-XXIe siècles: Science, religion et culture. 487. 2012. 9782811107376.
- 4.Thornton, Lynne. La femme dans la peinture orientaliste. ACR Edition. 184. 1994. 9782867700613.
- 5.François de HÉRAIN. Académie française.
- 6.Place François de Hérain in Les Baux-de-Provence. www.streetdir.org.
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