Jean-Victor Bertin

Jean -Victor Bertin ( born March 20, 1767 in Paris, † June 11, 1842 in Paris) was a French painter and one of the most famous landscape painters of his time.

Life

Jean -Victor Bertin was born on March 20, 1767 the son of a wig -maker in Paris.

From 1785, he studied in Paris at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture ( Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ) painting with Gabriel François Doyen ( 1726-1806 ). Later, he was also a pupil of Pierre -Henri de Valenciennes ( 1750-1819 ).

From 1793, he exhibited his paintings regularly in the Salon de Paris ( Paris Salon ) from 1808 he was even awarded a gold medal.

Among his many students were later some famous painters, such as ...

• Cogniet Léon (1784-1880),
• Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875),
• Charles -François Daubigny (1817-1878),
• André Jolivard (1787-1851) and
• Achille Etna Michallon ( 1796-1822 ).

Jean -Victor Bertin died on June 11, 1842 at the age of 75 years in Paris.