Eugène Bidau was a French painter, most notable for his still lifes. Bidau was born at La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. He studied under Baptiste-Joseph Lechat and the portrait and genre artist Léon-Désiré Alexandre (1817-86), both of whom exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris.
