The Grasshopper Singing to the Moon

Jean-Baptiste (James) Bertrand (1823-1887)

Pupil of: Etienne Rey, Jean-Claude Bonnefond, Alphonse Perin, and Orsel

James Bertrand, who was born at Lyons, first studied there under Bonnefond, and later in Paris under Perin and Orsel, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. From Paris he went to Rome and painted many Italian and religious subjects, with which he won his first medal in 1861. At the Salon of 1882 his poetic rendiction of the fable of the grasshopper was one of the pictures of the year.

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