Pierre Edmond Alexandre Hédouin , known as Edmond Hédouin was a French painter and engraver . Edmond Hédouin is the son of Pierre Hédouin (28 July 1789, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 20 December 1868, Paris), a lawyer and then a civil servant, who first became interested in music and studied Painting, starting with drawing attention to Flemish painting of the 15th century, and particularly Hans Memling, but he is best known for his work on 18th- century painting. He entered the Ecole des Beaux – Arts in Paris on April 7, 1838, where he studied painting in Paul Delaroche ‘s studio , and engraving and lithography in that of Célestin Nanteuil . It begins at the Salon de Paris in 1842, with genre paintings and landscapes inspired by the life of the fields and Spanish or Oriental folklore. He exhibited his work at the Salon until 1882. He was awarded a 2nd class medal in 1848 with a reminder in 1857. At the 1855 World Exposition he was awarded a 2nd class medal. In 1845, he began to lithograph and reproduced paintings of famous painters. He made numerous illustrations of books. Charles Baudelaire wrote in the Salon of 1846 about Edmond Hédouin: “In the different specialties of the Bas-Breton, Catalan, Swiss, Norman, etc. subjects, Armand and Adolphe Leleux are overtaken by M. Guillemin, who is inferior to M. Hédouin, who himself cedes it to M. Haffner. I have heard several times from MM. The singular reproach of the Swiss, the Spaniards, or the Britons, all their characters were Breton. M. Hédouin is certainly a painter of merit, who has a firm touch and who understands color; He will no doubt succeed in constituting a peculiar originality. ” In 1847, he made a trip to Algeria, in the region of Constantine , with Adolphe Leleux . He made the decorative paintings of the Théâtre Français foyer and the Palais-Royal festivals gallery 3 (1861). The paintings he had made for the Paris City Hall – View of the castle of Vincennes, landscape , View of the butte Montmartre, landscape – were destroyed by the fire of 1871.