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Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand
Jean-Baptiste Isabey1808
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Bertrand was a military engineer and companion of Emperor Napoleon, who described the bridges his friend Bertrand built for the French crossing of the Danube at Wagram in 1809 as the finest since the Romans.
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- Title: Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767-1855)
- Date Created: 1808
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 4.3 x 3.4 cm (1 11/16 x 1 5/16 in.); Unframed: 3.9 x 3 cm (1 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
- Provenance: Maréchal Ney, Prince de la Moskowa (1909). (Schidlof, 1929). Purchased for £150 by Edward B. Greene.
- Type: Portrait Miniature
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1211
- Medium: watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel frame
- Inscriptions: signed lower right: Isabey [inscribed on case: Henri, 17 Septembre 1808.]
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 18th century
- Credit Line: The Edward B. Greene Collection
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1940.1211
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