François Édouard Bertin was a French painter born in Paris, the son of the renowned journalist Louis-François Bertin

Louis-François Bertin

Louis-François Bertin, also known as Bertin l'Aîné was a French journalist...

. Édouard studied under Girodet-Trioson

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson January 5, 1767 – December 9, 1824), was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who was part of the beginning of the Romantic movement by adding elements of eroticism through his paintings...

 and Bidauld

Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld

Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld was a French painter.A native of the city of Carpentras, Bidauld first studied painting with his elder brother, Jean-Pierre-Xavier, in Lyons. In 1783 he traveled to Paris, there winning the favor of an art dealer and perfume seller named Dulac...

. He represented the details and general character of a landscape with great skill, but was less successful in his colouring. He was inspector of the Beaux Arts, and from 1854 director of the Journal des Débats

Journal des Débats

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. Bertin died in Paris in 1871.

Selected works

• Cimabue meeting with Giotto.
• Christ on the Mount of Olives. 1837.
• A view of Olevano.
• The old Tombs on the Nile.
• The Forest of Fontainebleau.
• View of an excavated Monastery near Viterbo.