Nicolas Bertin (1667 in Paris – 1736) was a French painter.
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A student of Jean Jouvenet, Vernansal the elder and Louis Boullongne, he won the prix de Rome in 1685 for "Construction of Noah's ark". He was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1703.
Works
edit- Saint Philip baptising the eunuch of Candace, 1718 (Louvre)
- Hercules delivering Prometheus.
- Construction of Noah's ark, 1685
- The Stoning of St Stephen, (Musée Henri Dupuis Saint-Omer)
- Moses and the daughters of Jethro, (Musée Henri Dupuis Saint-Omer)
- Moses and the daughters of Jethro, (Musée Lambinet Versailles) (2iem version)
- Prometheus delivered by Hercules, 1703, (Louvre)
- Bacchanalia, 1710–1720, (National Museum in Warsaw)
- The Resurrection of Lazarus, 1720 (Musée Lambinet Versailles)
- Phaeton driving the sun-chariot (Phaéton on the Chariot of Apollo), c. 1720, (Louvre)
- Vertumnus and Pomona, (decoration) (musée national du château et des Trianons Versailles)
- Annunciation (Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago)
Further reading
edit- Lefrançois, Thierry (1981). Nicolas Bertin, 1668–1736 (in French). Paris: Arthena. ISBN 2-9032-3900-2. OCLC 8241047.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Nicolas Bertin.
- Works by and after Nicolas Bertin at Joconde, the central database of the French Ministry of Culture
- French Portrait Engraving