Thomas Regnaudin (
baptised
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18 February 1622 – 3 July 1706) was a French sculptor, affiliated with Northern
Baroque
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. Some of Regnaudin's works were placed in the Apollo Gallery of the
Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...
. A son of a
stonemason
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, he was a pupil of
Anguier.
[Victor Lucien Tapié, A. Ross Williamson. ''The age of grandeur: Baroque art and architecture'', 1960]
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External links
Entry in Art Encyclopedia
1622 births
1706 deaths
17th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
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