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ARTIST: Hippolyte Dominique Berteaux (French, 1843 - 1928) TITLE: Gentleman Writing Letter MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Few small patches. Minor craquelure. Some scattered inpaintings/touch ups. Wear to frame. ART SIZE: 10 x 8 inches / 25 x 20 cm FRAME SIZE: 13 x 11 inches / 33 x 27 cm SIGNATURE: lower left LOCATION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 140089 US SHIPPING: $49 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Hippolyte-Dominique Berteaux (28 March 1843, Saint-Quentin, Aisne - 17 October 1926, Paris) was a French painter who specialized in murals and portraits.He studied painting at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, where he worked in the studios of Hippolyte Flandrin, Leon 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 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 Theatre Graslin, and the staircases at the Musee des Beaux-Arts and the Hotel de Ville. Later, he would decorate a ceiling section at the Petit Luxembourg.He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais, 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 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts.In 1891, he was named a Knight in the Legion of Honor; becoming an Officer in 1923.He is interred at the Cimetiere du Montparnasse. His works may be seen at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne, Musee d'Arts de Nantes, Musee d'Orsay, the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Quimper and the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rennes.