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Hippolyte Berteaux

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[[File:Hippolyte Berteaux.png|thumb|185px|Hippolyte Berteaux (c.1898)]]
'''Hippolyte-Dominique Berteaux''' (28 March 1843, [[Saint-Quentin]] - 17 October 1926, [[Paris]]) was a French painter who specialized in murals and portraits.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2W2vUik Archives de l'Aisne, commune de Saint-Quentin, acte de naissance numéro 185, année 1843 (page 49/398)].</ref>

== 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 art|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 de Nantes|Musée des Beaux-Arts]] and the . Later, he would decorate a ceiling section at the [[Petit Luxembourg]]

He exhibited at the , 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]]<ref>Édouard-Joseph, ''Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains'', Vol.1, A-E, Art & Édition, 1930</ref>

In 1891, he was named a Knight in the [[Legion of Honor]]; becoming an Officer in 1923.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3aBx5e4 Documentation] @ the [[Base Leonore]]</ref>

He is interred at the [[Cimetière du Montparnasse]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/2S8ftA9 Registre journalier d'inhumation du Cimetière du Montparnasse de 1926]</ref>. His works may be seen at the , [[Musée d'Arts de Nantes]], [[Musée d'Orsay]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/2xPSyCL « Dunes, île d'Yeu »] @ Musee-orsay.fr</ref>, the [[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper]] and the [[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes]].

==Selected paintings==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="210">
Berteaux-Horseman.jpg|Young Horseman,</br> Old Hunter
Berteaux-Madness.jpg|Madness and Childish Games
Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne - La jeune pastoure - Hippolyte Berteaux.jpg|The Young Shepherdess
Berteaux-Day.jpg|The End of the Day
</gallery>

== References ==


== 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

== External links ==

* [https://ift.tt/2xe80bu More works by Berteaux] @ ArtNet




[[Category:1843 births]]
[[Category:1926 deaths]]
[[Category:French painters]]
[[Category:French portrait painters]]
[[Category:French muralists]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Legion of Honour]]
[[Category:People from Saint-Quentin, Aisne]]


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