Philippe Bertrand
salon of 1704.[1] (Metropolitan Museum of Art
)Philippe Bertrand (1663–1724)Académie de peinture et de sculpture upon the display of a royal commission of 1700,[3] his small bronze of the Rape of Helen, a svelte composition of three figures with a debt to Giambologna's Rape of a Sabine Woman.[4] He was known for sculpting flowing, graceful, and even flying figures, particularly in his bronzes.[5]
In 1714, when the choir of
Académie française to celebrate the completion of the project; it is conserved in the Wallace Collection, London.[7]
Two further small collectors' bronzes by Bertrand are in the
George IV.[8]
References
- ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. no. 2003.296. "Recent acquisitions: a selection, 2003-2004", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Fall 2004), p. 23 (illus.).
- ^ Bertrand's date of death is sometimes given as 1724, but just as often is given as 1704.
- ^ James David Draper, "Arms for Aeneas: A Group Reattributed to Jean Cornu", Metropolitan Museum Journal 24 (1989:223-237) p 233.
- Musée de Fontainebleau; it is illustrated in Draper 1989, p. 232 fig. 17.
- ISBN 0-300-06494-2.
- Ancien Régime(Wallace Collection website)
- ^ The Wallace Collection: Philippe Bertrand, Allegory commemorating the Accomplishment of the Vow of Louis XIII, 1714 (S176): The runner-up in the competition was the young Voltaire, who savaged the winner in an acerbic public letter.
- ^ The Royal Collection: Philippe Bertrand.
