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Jean Béraud was a French painter.

His father was a sculptor and was likely working on the site of St. Isaac's Cathedral at the time of his son's birth. The young Béraud, a student of Léon Bonnat, exhibited his paintings at the Salon for the first time in 1872, but he only gained some recognition in 1876, with his On the Way Back from the Funeral. He exhibited with the Society of French Watercolorists at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris. He painted many scenes of Parisian daily life during the Belle Époque, in a style that stands somewhere between the academic art of the Salon and that of the Impressionists. He received the Légion d'honneur in 1894.

Béraud is buried in Montparnasse cemetery.

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