Pierre Edmond Alexandre Hédouin, known as Edmond Hédouin, was is a French painter and engraver. Edmond Hédouin is the son of Pierre Hédouin lawyer, then civil servant, who was first interested in music, then studied painting by starting to draw attention to Flemish painting of the fifteenth century, and in particular Hans Memling, but he is best known for his work on eighteenth-century painting. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris on April 7, 1838, where he studied painting in the studio of Paul Delaroche, 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 field life and Spanish or Oriental folklore. He exhibited his work at the Salon until 1882. He received a second class medal in 1848 with a reminder in 1857. At the World’s Fair in 1855 he won a second class medal. From 1845, he began to lithograph and reproduced paintings of famous painters. He makes many illustrations of books. In 1847, he made a trip to Algeria, in the region of Constantine, with Adolphe Leleux. He created the decorative paintings of the Théâtre Français foyer and the Palais-Royal party gallery (1861). The paintings he had made for the Paris City Hall – View of the castle of Vincennes, landscape, View of the hill Montmartre, landscape – are destroyed by the fire of 1871.