Claude Bertin (died 1705) was a French sculptor, who was part of the highly trained team that supplied sculptures for

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, u ...

. His monumental marble vases, following the type of the

Borghese Vase The Borghese Vase is a monumental bell-shaped krater sculpted in Athens from Pentelic marble in the second half of the 1st century BC as a garden ornament for the Roman market; it is now in the Louvre Museum. Original Iconography Standing 1. ...

, with rich

bas-relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the ...

s of fruit, swags of ivy or friezes of mythological scenes, executed between 1687 and 1705, still adorn the terraces of Versailles.

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Château de Versailles: Les oeuvres à restaurer en 2006
Three vases by Bertin. 17th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 18th-century French sculptors 1705 deaths Year of birth unknown 18th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub