Paulin Bertrand - Landscape

Paulin Bertrand Oil on canvas
71 x 103 cm
signed lower left
dated 1888
carved frame Ch Trenckle sculpt 1888

Paulin Bertrand is a French painter born in 1852, died in 1940. He was a student of Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. He began at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1878, he exhibited there without interruption until 1925. He also participated in the Universal Exhibitions of London, Brussels, Saint-Louis, Sao Paulo.
He was painter of the Ministry of the Navy. He abandoned portraiture early in favor of landscapes. In the site of impressionism, he showed himself sensitive to the climatic conditions of the landscape. He painted mainly in Provence and on the Mediterranean coast, having also made incursions into Brittany. He took his themes as much from the hinterland as from the coast.