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"title": "The Year in Review for 1985",
"description": "The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986).",
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"description": "San Diego, Timken Art Gallery; Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. J.-B.-C. Corot: View of Volterra (1988), [p. 4], fig. 3, no. 3.",
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"description": "The arcade, or covered passageway lined with arches, appeared frequently as part of aqueducts, bridges, galleries, and even as arches in foliage in paintings by Bertin and his contemporaries in the early 19th century. While some of Bertin\u2019s paintings of aqueducts were likely painted from nature, this one appears to be a product of the artist\u2019s imagination.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1985.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26\u201371.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 50; Mentioned: p. 64, no. 44",
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"citation": "Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"biography": "Bertin entered the Acad\u00e9mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture at age eighteen as a pupil of Gabriel-Fran\u00e7ois 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 Ch\u00e2teau 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 Acad\u00e9mie in 1817. He conveyed his ideas about landscape painting in two series of lithographs published under the titles Recueil d'\u00e9tudes de paysage (1816) and \u00c9tudes de paysages (1823). Among the famous painters who studied under Bertin were Achille Michallon (1796-1822), Jules Coignet (1798-1860) and Corot (q.v.).",
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