Alexandre Bernheim (4 April 1839 - 2 March 1915) was a French art dealer, photographer and optician.
He was born in Besançon to colour merchant Joseph Bernheim (1799-1859) and Madeleine Mayer.
[1] On the advice of his friend Gustave Courbet he moved himself and his family to Paris and set up a new studio on its rue Neuve as well as in 1863 opening the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune at 8 rue Laffitte.
In 1901 the first retrospective of Vincent van Gogh was held in that gallery and Bernheim took part in the sale of Courbet's L'Origine du monde in 1913.
He married Henriette Adler and had: Bernheim died two years later as his home on avenue Hoche in Paris.