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]

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