François de Hérain

{{Short description|French painter, sculptor and engraver (1877–1962)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1877|11|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|5|28|1877|11|10|df=y}}

| death_place = Paris, France

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| occupation = Painter, sculptor, engraver

| spouse = Eugénie Hardon

| children = Pierre de Hérain

| parents = Pierre Paul Dehérain

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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.{{cite web|title=François de Hérain (1877-1962)|url=http://data.bnf.fr/14900868/francois_de_herain/|website=Bibliothèque nationale de France|accessdate=28 July 2017}}Atkin, Nicolas. Petain. Routledge, 2014; {{ISBN|978-0582070370}} He did many paintings of scenes in French Algeria and Morocco{{cite book|editor-last1=Bonnichon|editor-first1=Philippe|editor-last2=Gény|editor-first2=Pierre|title=Présences françaises outre-mer, XVIe-XXIe siècles: Science, religion et culture|date=2012|publisher=KARTHALA Editions|location=Paris|isbn=9782811107376|oclc=847557177|page=487|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oEAftH_vN_8C&q=Fran%C3%A7ois+de+H%C3%A9rain&pg=PA487}}{{cite book|last1=Thornton|first1=Lynne|title=La femme dans la peinture orientaliste|date=1994|publisher=ACR Edition|location=Paris|oclc=638756771|page=184|isbn=9782867700613|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJBmJGekJ3MC&q=Fran%C3%A7ois+de+H%C3%A9rain&pg=PA184}} and authored several art books. He won the Prix Charles Blanc from the Académie française for Peintres et sculpteurs écrivains d’art in 1961.{{cite web|title=François de HÉRAIN|url=http://www.academie-francaise.fr/francois-de-herain|website=Académie française|accessdate=28 July 2017}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.streetdir.org/FR/Provence-Alpes-Cote-D-Azur/Bouches-Du-Rhone/Arles/Les-Baux-De-Provence/Strassen/Place-Francois-De-Herain/|title=Place François de Hérain in Les Baux-de-Provence|website=www.streetdir.org|access-date=2017-08-13}}