Jean-Baptiste Regnault (9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter.

Biography

Regnault was born in

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, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to

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by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin. After his return to Paris in 1776, Regnault won the Grand Prix for his painting ''Alexandre and Diogène'', and in 1783 he was elected to the French

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. His diploma picture, ''The'' ''Education of

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the Centaur'', is now in the

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, as also are his ''Trois Grâces, Le Déluge, Descente de croix (Christ taken down from the Cross,'' originally executed for the royal chapel at Fontainebleau) and ''Socrate arrachant Alcibiade du sein de la Volupté.'' His ''L'origine de la peinture'' and ''L'origine de la sculpture, ou Pygmalion amoureux de sa statue'' are now at the Palace of Versailles. Besides various small pictures and allegorical subjects, Regnault was also the author of many large historical paintings; and his school, which reckoned amongst its chief attendants Guérin, Crepin, Lafitte, Blondel,

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, Henriette Lorimier and Alexandre Menjaud, was for a long while the rival in influence of that of

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. Besides Merry-Joseph Blondel, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Robert Lefèvre, and Henriette Lorimier, Jean-Baptiste Regnault's students include:

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, Louis Hersent,

Charles Paul Landon Charles Paul Landon (12 October 17605 March 1826) was a French painter and popular writer on art and artists. Life and work Landon was born in Nonant and entered the studio of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, where he made a lifelong friendship with Ro ...

, Hippolyte Lecomte,

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, Jean-Hilaire Belloc, Anne Nicole Voullemier. Jean-Baptiste Regnault was married first to Sophie Meyer, then Sophie Félicité Beaucourt. He died in Paris. He is buried in Père-Lachaise Cemetery. The_Judgement_of_Paris_by_Jean_Baptiste_Regnault

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Selected works

* ''Alexandre et Diogène'', ou ''Diogéne Visité par Alexandre'' (1776) *''L'Éducation d'Achille'' ''par le centaure Chiron'' (1782),

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* ''L'origine de la peinture'' (1786)'','' Palace of Versailles *''L'origine de la sculpture, ou Pygmalion amoureux de sa statue'' (1786)'','' Palace of Versailles * ''Oreste et Iphigénie en Tauride'' (1787) * ''Déscente de Croix'' (1789),

* ''Le Déluge'' (1789/91), Musée du Louvre * ''

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arrachant Alcibiade des bras de la Volupté'' (1791), Musée du Louvre * ''La Liberté ou la Mort'' (1795),

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* ''Les Trois Grâces'' (1799), Musée du Louvre *''Desaix recevant la mort à la bataille de Marengo'' (1801) * ''Napoléon au camp de Boulogne'' (1804), Museo Napoleónico (Havana) *''La Marche triomphale de Napoléon Ier vers le temple de l'immortalité'' (1804) * ''Mariage du prince Jérôme et de la princesse de Wurtemberg'' (1810) * ''The Judgement of Paris'' (1812), Detroit Institute of Art, donation from Cristina and Henry Ford II * ''La Toilette de Vénus'' (1815),

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* ''L'Amour et l'Hymen buvant dans la coupe de l'Amitié'' (1820), Meaux, Musée Bossuet, gift of Professeur Changeux * ''Jupiter et Io'' (1827), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest, France, Brest * ''Cupidon et Psyché'' (1828)

References

External links

Jean-Baptiste Regnault in Artcyclopedia
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