Bidault. Turning from the classic and traditional style to nature, he successfully endeavoured to unite truth in detail with breadth of general effect. Works: Meeting of Cimabue and Giotto (1827), Christ on Mount of Olives (1837); Sources of the Alpheus (1853), View of Olevano, Old Tombs on the Nile, Forest of Fontainebleau.—Ch. Blanc, Artistes de mon Temps, 249; Larousse, ii. 621; Meyer, Gesch., 766.
BERTIN, JEAN VICTOR, born in Paris,
March 20, 1775, died there, June 11, 1842.
Landscape painter; pupil of Valenciennes.
Medal, 1st class, in 1808; L. of Honour,
1817. He was the master of Cogniet, Bosselier,
Corot, Enfantin, and Roqueplan. Works:
Festival of Pan, Offering to Venus, Cicero
on his Return from Exile, Flight of Angelica,
Festival of Bacchus, Arrival of Napoleon at
Ettlingen. His Temple of Minerva at Pheneus
is in the Louvre.—Villot, Cat. Louvre; Ottley.
BERTIN, NICOLAS, born in Paris in
1667, died there, April 11, 1736. Pupil of
Vernansalle, of Jouvenet, and of Bon Boulogne.
When eighteen years old he took
the first prize for painting for his Building
of the Ark, and he was sent as a pensioner
of the king to Rome, where he resided four
years. He became a member of the Academy
in 1705, professor in 1715, and adjunct
rector in 1733. Works: St. Philip baptizing
the Eunuch, Hercules delivering Prometheus
(1703), Louvre; Chastity of Joseph,
Susanna at the Bath, Amsterdam Museum;
Man with the Gourd, Gardener and the
Bear (2 illustrations of La Fontaine's fables),
Dresden Gallery.—Villot, Cat. Louvre.
BERTINELLI. See Albertinelli.
BERTLING, KARL, born at Meppen,
Hanover; contemporary. History and portrait
painter; pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy
under Schadow and Bendemann; became
first known through his Death of Abel,
and is now chiefly reputed for his masterly
portraits. Works: Death of Abel; Œdipus
led by Antigone; Resurrection (1869); Loreley;
Night and Morning (1875), Villa Böker,
Bonn.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1876), i. 294.
BERTO DI GIOVANNI, flourished in
1497-1523. Roman school of Perugia;
called also Bertus Joannis Marci. Pupil of
Perugino at same time with Raphael, who
engaged him in 1516 as his assistant to paint
a picture of the Coronation of the Virgin
for the convent of S. M. di Monteluce, near
Perugia, which was finished after Raphael's
death by Giulio Romano and Il Fattore
(1525) and is now in the Gallery of the Vatican.
Berto painted for the predella three
subjects—the Birth (dated 1525), Marriage,
and Death of the Virgin, and a fourth representing
the Presentation in the Temple.
The predella of the principal altarpiece in
S. Giuliana, Perugia, is perhaps also by him.—Lanzi,
i. 348; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne;
C. & C., Italy, iii. 346; Müntz, Raphael, 622.
BERTON, ARMAND, born in Paris; contemporary.
History and portrait painter;
pupil of A. Millet and Cabanel. Medal, 3d
class, 1882. Works: Evening (1880); Portraits
(1881); Eve, Woman with the Rose
(1882); A Grasshopper (1883); Modern Fable
Seated upon Antique Ruins (1884); Portrait
(1885).
BERTRAND, GEORGES, born in Paris
in 1849. Genre and portrait painter; pupil
of Yvon, Barrias, and Bonnat. Medal, 2d
class, 1881. Works: The Miser (1876); Falling
Leaves (1877); The Leap from the Leucadian
Rock (1878); Slave's Leisure (1879);
Patrie! (1881); Spring Passing (1883).—Meyer,
Conv. Lex., xxi. 101.
BERTRAND, JAMES, born at Lyons in
1825. History painter; pupil of Périn and
of Orsel, then studied in Rome; a skilful,
careful painter, with a graceful, harmonious
style and much religious sentiment. Medals:
3d class, 1861, 1863, 1869, 1878; L. of Honour,
1876. Works: Idyl (1857); St. Benedict
taking Communion (1859), Lyons Society of
Art; Conversion of St. Thaïs (1861), Lyons
Museum; Brothers of Death taking away a
Murdered Man in the Campagna (1863),
Lyons Museum; Women of Alvito on a Pilgrimage,
Diogenes at Laïs's House (1863);
Mary the Egyptian Repentant (1864); Emi-
