Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand

Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand

Jean-Baptiste Isabey

Date
1808
Medium
watercolor on ivory in a gold and enamel frame
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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