Jean Baptiste Leopold Colin

Jean Colin (1881–1961) was a Flemish painter most known for his portraits, nudes, and still life paintings.

He was a pupil of Isidore Verheyden, one of the great Belgian masters of the 19th century.

He lived and had his workshop in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, one of the municipalities In the Greater Brussels area, until the time of his death, In 1961.

His travels in Africa led him to develop a taste for the exotic, which came through in his many paintings of gypsies ("bohemians") and even Africans in the Belgian Congo.

His painting 'Travesti' features Bertha and her older brother, Maurice, Bonnier, as well as the artist's wife.