Background
Bertrand was born on November 4, 1761 in Bordeaux.
Bertrand was born on November 4, 1761 in Bordeaux.
Bertrand Andrieu was a pupil of André Lavau in Bordeaux.
Andrieu moved to Paris in 1786.
In 1791, he made a medal commemorating the taking of the Bastille, and bacame the principal medal engraver of the Napoleonic regime.
He engraved a commemorative medal for the baptism of the King of Rome on a drawing of Louis Lafitte (1770-1828).
He was a member of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna.
