Nicolas Bertin Explained
Nicolas Bertin (1667 in Paris – 1736) was a French painter.
A student of Jean Jouvenet, Vernansal the elder and Louis Boullongne, he won the French: [[prix de Rome]]|italic=no in 1685 for "Construction of Noah's ark". He was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1703.
Works
- 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
- Book: Lefrançois, Thierry . Nicolas Bertin, 1668–1736 . 1981 . Arthena . 2-9032-3900-2 . Paris . fr . 8241047.
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