An Aqueduct Near a Fortress
1807
Jean-Victor Bertin
Jean-Victor Bertin (French, 1767–1842)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
An Aqueduct Near a Fortress, 1807. Jean-Victor Bertin (French, 1767–1842). Oil on fabric; framed: 50.5 x 55 x 8 cm (19 7/8 x 21 5/8 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 35.8 x 40.8 cm (14 1/8 x 16 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1985.35 The arcade, or covered passageway lined with arches, appeared frequently as part of aqueducts, bridges, galleries, and even as arches in foliage in paintings by Bertin and his contemporaries in the early 19th century. While some of Bertin’s paintings of aqueducts were likely painted from nature, this one appears to be a product of the artist’s imagination.
- Maker/Artist
- Bertin, Jean Victor
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 50.5 x 55 x 8 cm (19 7/8 x 21 5/8 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 35.8 x 40.8 cm (14 1/8 x 16 1/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed in transparent brown paint in the lower right corner: Bertin /1807
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1985.35
- Credit Line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1985, San Diego, Timken Art Gallery; Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. J.-B.-C. Corot: View of Volterra (1988), [p. 4], fig. 3, no. 3.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 219 19th Century European
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