Jean-Victor Bertin

French, 1767 - 1842

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Sun drenches a landscape with trees, grassy hills, and rocky cliffs in this horizonal painting. In the lower right quadrant of the composition, a person with pale skin and wearing a mauve-purple tunic walks toward us on a wide walkway paved with oversized ochre-yellow blocks. The person, presumably a shepherd, braces a staff over one shoulder, and a flock of more than a dozen sheep and two dogs follow. Two trees with straight trunks and roughly oval-shaped canopies rise along the left edge of the canvas to nearly reach the top corner. Grass-carpeted hills lined with more trees roll back and away toward a trickling stream that winds through the middle distance. Rocky cliffs jutting steeply up are outlined against the pale blue sky beyond. A few brown structures are enclosed by a wall on the top of the cliff. On the left half of the composition, hills continue back to mountains that are hazy blue along the horizon, which comes less than halfway up this composition. A few puffy white clouds bob across the otherwise clear sky.
Jean-Victor Bertin, Shepherd with His Flock, c. 1820, oil on canvas, Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, 2004.166.3

Shepherd with His Flock

Jean-Victor Bertin · c. 1820 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2004.166.3

The image displays a landscape featuring a forest with tall trees and a stream running through it. At the center of the image is a group of grazing cows and a figure resting against a tree who appears to be playing a flute. In a clearing in the distance is a tall statue surrounded by more figures who appear to be dancing. The trees almost obscure the sky, although fluffy white clouds peek through a small opening. THe area in the bottom left hand corner is dark, with the clearing in the background illuminated.
Jean-Victor Bertin, Woodland Scene with Nymphs and a Herm, c. 1810, oil on canvas, Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, 2004.166.4

Woodland Scene with Nymphs and a Herm

Jean-Victor Bertin · c. 1810 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2004.166.4