id: 148364 accession number: 1975.77 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.77 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:38.532000 A Forest with Apollo and Daphne, 1810. Jean-Victor Bertin (French, 1767–1842). Oil on fabric; framed: 67.5 x 78.5 x 7 cm (26 9/16 x 30 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 54 x 65 cm (21 1/4 x 25 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin 1975.77 title: A Forest with Apollo and Daphne title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1810 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1810 current location: 202 French Neoclassical Decorative Arts creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean-Victor Bertin (French, 1767–1842) - artist Bertin entered the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture at age eighteen as a pupil of Gabriel-François Doyen (1726-1806). In 1788 he was a student of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750-1819), who encouraged him to paint idealized Italianate landscapes. Bertin exhibited at the Salon from 1793 until he died in 1842 and received the Legion of Honor in 1822. The French government commissioned works from him for the Grand Trianon at Versailles and the Château de Fontainebleau and purchased others for the provincial museums. Many of his earlier paintings, however, are only known to us through engraved reproductions. He most likely visited Italy between 1806 and 1808, as may be concluded from specific locations depicted in his landscapes. It was in part through the initiative of Bertin that a special Prix de Rome for historical landscape was created at the Académie in 1817. He conveyed his ideas about landscape painting in two series of lithographs published under the titles Recueil d'études de paysage (1816) and Études de paysages (1823). Among the famous painters who studied under Bertin were Achille Michallon (1796-1822), Jules Coignet (1798-1860) and Corot (q.v.). --- measurements: Framed: 67.5 x 78.5 x 7 cm (26 9/16 x 30 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 54 x 65 cm (21 1/4 x 25 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed in brown paint lower right corner: Bertin 1810 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Paris. Salon (1810), no. 73, Une forêt. On y a représenté Clorinde et Tancrède, no. 74, Autre forêt. On y voit Apollon et Daphné.', 'opening_date': None} --- PROVENANCE M. Kornienko, Paris. Bought in January 1974 by Shepherd Gallery, New York. Sold in March 1974 to Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Given to the CMA on 29 November 1975. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 22-23, Vol. I, no. 8 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.77/1975.77_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.77/1975.77_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.77/1975.77_full.tif