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Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (March 25, 1823, Lyon - September 26, 1887, Orsay , Seine et Oise ) was a French painter and lithographer. He was first a student of Etienne Rey (1789-1867) and then of Jean-Claude Bonnefont (1796-1860) at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon from 1840 to 1843.
Alphonse Perin (1798-1874) invited him to move to Paris, where he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and had his first exhibition at the Salon in 1857. He spent 11 years working with Perin and his teacher and friend Victor Orsel , who decorated the Chapel of the Eucharist in the Notre Dame de Lorette church in Paris and in 1854 began working on reproductions of Orsel's work.
Bertrand traveled in Italy between 1857 and 1862. Back in Paris, he befriended sculptors such as Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Alexandre Falguière and Auguste Clézinger. Influenced by his contacts with sculptors, from 1866 Bertrand devoted himself to allegories and genre scenes, departing from his early Nazarene style. These were heroic depictions of the great heroines of history and literature, as in "The Death of Sappho" (1867), "The Death of Virginie" (1869), "The Death of Manon Lescaut" (1870) and "The Death of Ophelia" (1872). These works have become widely known and popularized through engravings.
Alphonse Perin (1798-1874) invited him to move to Paris, where he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1844 and had his first exhibition at the Salon in 1857. He spent 11 years working with Perin and his teacher and friend Victor Orsel , who decorated the Chapel of the Eucharist in the Notre Dame de Lorette church in Paris and in 1854 began working on reproductions of Orsel's work.
Bertrand traveled in Italy between 1857 and 1862. Back in Paris, he befriended sculptors such as Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Alexandre Falguière and Auguste Clézinger. Influenced by his contacts with sculptors, from 1866 Bertrand devoted himself to allegories and genre scenes, departing from his early Nazarene style. These were heroic depictions of the great heroines of history and literature, as in "The Death of Sappho" (1867), "The Death of Virginie" (1869), "The Death of Manon Lescaut" (1870) and "The Death of Ophelia" (1872). These works have become widely known and popularized through engravings.
