(b Paris, bapt 11 Nov 1663; d Paris, 30 Jan 1724). French sculptor. He was the son of the sculptor David Bertrand (d 1697), who is best known for a series of elaborate plaster overmantels, probably dating from the 1690s, of which two survive at the ch?teau of Dampierre, Seine-et-Oise. In 1694 Philippe Bertrand supplied four circular stone allegorical medallions for the Arc de Triomphe in the Place du Peyrou in Montpellier (in situ). The Baroque elaboration of their composition and drapery is also apparent, in more refined form, in the small bronze group of the Rape of Helen (e.g. Fontainebleau, Ch?teau) with which Bertrand was admitted to the Acad?mie Royale in 1701. From 1705 he worked principally for the B?timents du Roi. His work under the direction of Jules Hardouin Mansart included a plaster statue of St Satyrus, one of 11 statues by various hands planned for the four circular chapels at the Invalides (c. 1705; destr., see Souchal, i, p. 52), and a rather academic female personification of Air for the Cascade Champ?tre in the park at the ch?teau of Marly (marble, 1706-9; Paris, Louvre).
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