Hermine Waterneau Explained

Hermine Waterneau
Birth Date:1862
Birth Place:Paris
Death Date:16 September
Death Place:Athis-Mons
Nationality:French
Occupation:Painter

Hermine Waterneau or Waternau (1862 - 1916) was a French painter.She was the daughter of Louis Aimé Waternau, French colonel commander of the Légion d'honneur after the Battle of Wörth, who died in 1879 . She became a pupil of Delphine Arnould de Cool-Fortin and showed work at the Paris Salon from 1878 when she showed a portrait of her father.[1] [2] Her work By the Bank of a Stream was included in the book Women Painters of the World.[3]

She died of a heart attack together with her maid Ermunde Serre, and their bodies were discovered by authorities when neighbors were alarmed by their absence.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00194846 WATERNEAU, Herminie - Painter
  2. https://archive.org/stream/explicationdesou00salo_1#page/197/mode/1up Catalog
  3. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39000/39000-h/39000-h.htm Women Painters of the World
  4. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k290074g/f4.item.r=herminie.zoom Figaro 16 September 1916