Jean Simon Berthélemy

Place: Laon

Born: 1743

Death: 1811

Biography:

Jean-Simon Berthélemy (5 March 1743 – 1 March 1811) was a French history painter who was commissioned to paint allegorical ceilings for the Palais du Louvre, the Luxembourg Palace and others, in a conservative Late Baroque-Rococo manner only somewhat affected by Neoclassicism. Berthélemy was born in Laon, Aisne, the son of a sculptor, Jean-Joseph B...