Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand (1808): Art, History and Details

Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand (1808) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767–1855).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand
• Date: 1808
• Creator attribution: Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767–1855)
• Culture: France
• Type: Portrait Miniature
• Technique: watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel frame
• 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.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1940.1211

Collection credit

The Edward B. Greene Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; The Edward B. Greene Collection. 1951.

View the collection record

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