Édouard Bertin

Edouard Bertin (Pierre-Louis De Laval, 1815)

François Édouard Bertin (1797–1871) was a French painter born in Paris, the son of the renowned journalist Louis-François Bertin. Édouard studied under Girodet-Trioson and Bidauld. He represented the details and general character of a landscape with great skill, but was less successful in his colouring. He was inspector of the Beaux Arts, and from 1854 director of the Journal des Débats. Bertin died in Paris in 1871.

Selected works

• Cimabue meeting with Giotto.
• Christ on the Mount of Olives. 1837.
• A view of Olevano.
• The old Tombs on the Nile.
• The Forest of Fontainebleau.
• View of an excavated Monastery near Viterbo.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "BERTIN, François Edouard" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.