Landscape

nationality
French
birth-death
1767-1842
Creation date
Collection
European
Materials
oil on canvas
Dimensions
9 15/16 x 12 13/16 in.
Currently On View
Location
Norb & Ruth Schaefer, Sr. and Norb & Carolyn Schaefer Jr. Gallery
Credit line
Blanche Stillson Fund
Accession number
1985.2
Provenance
Provenance Research is on-going at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and information will be added to this record as research is completed. Please contact Annette Schlagenhauff, Assoc. Curator of Research, at aschlagenhauff@imamuseum.org with any questions.
Gallery Label

A master of the idealized landscape, Bertin preferred to assemble various scenes into a composition of his own invention rather than to base his entire painting on an observation of one site. This idyllic landscape illustrates that approach, integrating into one small canvas a few clusters of meticulously rendered trees, a stream, and a group of nymphs in antique dress dancing around a statue of a deity.

Open and wooded areas and bands of sunlight and shadow are also carefully placed to enhance the sense of nature arranged in impeccable order. This effect is enhanced by the canvas' precise brushwork and smooth surface, hallmarks of the Neoclassical landscape.

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