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Portrait of Monsieur Bertin
Portrait of Monsieur Bertin is an 1832 oil on canvas painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It depicts Louis-François Bertin (1766–1841), the French writer, art collector and director of the pro-royalist "Journal des débats". Ingres completed the portrait during his first period of success; having achieved acclaim as a history painter, he accepted portrait commissions with reluctance, regarding them as a distraction from more important work. Bertin was a friend and a politically active member of the
richly carved grapevine. Art historians Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts note that the design follows an old French tradition of placing austere male portraits within "exuberantly carved" frames. The frame closely resembles that of Raphael's c. 1514–15 "Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione", a painting that influenced Ingres, especially in colour and tone. A similar frame was used for Ingres's 1854 painting of "Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII".
Reception.
"Monsieur Bertin" was exhibited at the 1833 Salon alongside his