The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand
1808
(French, 1767–1855)
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.)
The Edward B. Greene Collection 1940.1211
Location: not on view
Description
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.- Maréchal Ney, Prince de la Moskowa (1909). (Schidlof, 1929). Purchased for £150 by Edward B. Greene.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; The Edward B. Greene Collection. 1951. Mentioned: p. 23, p. 35, cat. 67; reproduced: Plate XXXIII archive.org
- Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).Cleveland, Lakewood Civic Art Gallery, April 18-July 16, 1973: Miniatures in Art (no cat.)L’Exposition de la Miniature, Brussels, 1912, no. 869 (Recueil des Oeuvres, G. Van Oest & Cie, 1913, no. 179, repr. pl. XXXVIII, called in error Maréchal Ney)
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1940.1211