Nicolas Bertin
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Biography
A student of Jean JouvenetJean Jouvenet
Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet was a French painter, especially of religious subjects.He was born into an artistic family in Rouen...
, Vernansal the elder and Louis Boullongne, he won the prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
in 1685 for "Construction of Noah's ark". He was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1703.
Works
- Saint PhilipPhilip the ApostlePhilip the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Later Christian traditions describe Philip as the apostle who preached in Greece, Syria, and Phrygia....
baptising the eunuch of Candace, 1718 (Louvre) - Hercules delivering PrometheusPrometheusIn Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan, the son of Iapetus and Themis, and brother to Atlas, Epimetheus and Menoetius. He was a champion of mankind, known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals...
. - 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 LambinetMusée LambinetThe Musée Lambinet is a municipal museum in Versailles telling the history of the town. Since 1932 it has been housed in the hôtel Lambinet, a hôtel particulier designed by Élie Blanchard, built in the second half of the 18th century by a part of the Clagny lake and left to the town of Versailles...
Versailles) (2iem version) - Prometheus delivered by Hercules,, 1703, (Louvre)
- The Resurrection of Lazarus, 1720 (Musée LambinetMusée LambinetThe Musée Lambinet is a municipal museum in Versailles telling the history of the town. Since 1932 it has been housed in the hôtel Lambinet, a hôtel particulier designed by Élie Blanchard, built in the second half of the 18th century by a part of the Clagny lake and left to the town of Versailles...
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)