From November 1944 to December 1949, he chaired the Commission for artistic recovery in charge of repatriating to France works of art, works of art and precious objects, books, archives and manuscripts, looted and taken out of the territory by the Germans during the 'Occupation.
[4][5][6] In this administration, placed under the supervision of the Director of Arts and Letters and the Minister of National Education, he was the hierarchical superior of Michel Florisoone and Rose Valland.
After the war, using repatriated works, he organized the exhibition Masterpieces from French private collections, found in Germany (Paris: Musée de l'Orangerie, 1946).
[7] As a member of the Institut de France, he was appointed curator of the Musée Condé after the war.
[8] He is the brother of the collector Lucien Henraux (1877-1926) and the brother-in-law of Marie Bernières-Henraux, sculptor, former student of Auguste Rodin.