Hippolyte Berteaux

Hippolyte-Dominique Berteaux (28 March 1843, Saint-Quentin, Aisne - 17 October 1926, Paris) was a French painter who specialized in murals and portraits.[1]

Hippolyte Berteaux (c. 1898)

Biography

He studied painting at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he worked in the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin, Léon Cogniet and Paul Baudry. From 1872 to 1875, he was employed as "Painter to the Sultan" in Istanbul.

He then moved to Nantes, where he created portraits, genre scenes and landscapes; with the local dunes being a favorite subject. He also devoted himself to decorative painting. His most notable works of that type are the murals on the ceiling of the Théâtre Graslin, and the staircases at the Musée des Beaux-Arts and the Hôtel de Ville. Later, he would decorate a ceiling section at the Petit Luxembourg.

He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he obtained a second-class medal in 1885. After that, he would exhibit "out of competition". Beginning in 1901, he sent his works to be shown at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.[2]

In 1891, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor; becoming an Officer in 1923.[3]

He is interred at the Cimetière du Montparnasse.[4] His works may be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne, Musée d'Arts de Nantes, Musée d'Orsay,[5] the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes.

Selected paintings
  • Young Horseman, Old Hunter
    Young Horseman,
    Old Hunter
  • Madness and Childish Games
    Madness and Childish Games
  • The Young Shepherdess
    The Young Shepherdess
  • The End of the Day
    The End of the Day

References
  1. Archives de l'Aisne, commune de Saint-Quentin, acte de naissance numéro 185, année 1843 (page 49/398).
  2. Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, Vol.1, A-E, Art & Édition, 1930
  3. Documentation @ the Base Leonore
  4. Registre journalier d'inhumation du Cimetière du Montparnasse de 1926
  5. « Dunes, île d'Yeu » @ Musee-orsay.fr

Further reading
  • Émilien Maillard, L'Art à Nantes au XIXe siècle, E. Monnier, Paris 1888
  • Fernand Bertaux, Les Artistes picards: Études sur MM. Hippolyte Berteaux, Louis Debras, Jules Lefebvre, Francis Tattegrain, peintres, Emmanuel Fontaine, statuaire, E. Lechevalier, Paris, 1894
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