Brief Biography-Jean-Simon Berthélemy was born in Laon, Aisne. He was principally a painter of murals on ceilings. He studied under Noël Hallé at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris and won the Prix de Rome in 1767. Unfortunately, scholars could not document his time in Rome well except that he was acquainted with Joseph-Benoît Suvée and François-André Vincent, and he received a visit from Jean-Honore Fragonard, who was there to choose art for a collector. In 1774 he returned to Paris and undertook several public commissions, his most notable being murals in the Musée des Antiquités at the Louvre. He also painted ceilings in the Palace of Fontainebleau and the Luxembourg Palace. He died in Paris in 1811.