André Dutertre (9 June 1753 in

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– April 1842 in Paris) was a French painter.

Life

A professor at the école gratuite de dessin, his students included Vien and Collet. He took part in the

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and on 22 August 1798 he was made a member of the Institut d'Égypte, in the literature and arts section. He was taken on the trip to the Suez Isthmus on 24 December 1798. He drew 184 portraits of the officers and scholars of the expedition, which were used as illustrations for the ''Histoire scientifique et militaire'' by Reybaud and reprinted in the ''Journal'' by Villiers du Terrage. He also drew Egyptians - his portrait of

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is his masterwork. On his return to France, he exhibited portraits at the

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s of 1804 and 1812, notably those of Desaix and Kléber. The Musée de

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owns nearly thirty portraits by him.Bénézit, ''Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'', Paris, Gründ, 1999, vol. IV, p. 926

References

''À la découverte de l’Italie et de l’Égypte, les voyages d’André Dutertre''. Thesis from the Ecole nationale des chartes
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