Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault Paris 1754-1829
French painter. His first teacher was the history painter Jean Bardin, who took him to Rome in 1768. Back in Paris in 1772, he transferred to the studio of Nicolas-Bernard Lepicie. In 1776 he won the Prix de Rome with Alexander and Diogenes (Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.) and returned to Rome, where he was to spend the next four years at the Academie de France in the company of Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Francois-Pierre Peyron. While witnessing at first hand Peyron's development of a manner indebted to Poussin and David's conversion to Caravaggesque realism, Regnault inclined first towards a Late Baroque mode in a Baptism of Christ (untraced; recorded in two sketches and an etching), then, in Perseus Washing his Hands (1779; Louisville, KY, Speed A. Mus.), to the static Neo-classicism of Anton Raphael Mengs.
L ORIGINE DE LA SCULPTURE OU PYGMALION PRIANT VENUS D ANIMER SA STATUE Date 1786
Medium peinture X l'huile ; toile
Dimensions 120 X 140 cm (47.24 X 55.12 in)
cyf Painting ID:: 75248
Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault L ORIGINE DE LA SCULPTURE OU PYGMALION PRIANT VENUS D ANIMER SA STATUE Date 1786
Medium peinture X l'huile ; toile
Dimensions 120 X 140 cm (47.24 X 55.12 in)
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Socrate arrachant Alcibiade du sein de la Volupte Oil on canvas, 1791.
H. 46 cm (18 in.), W. 68 cm (26 ¾ in.)
cjr Painting ID:: 81313
Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault Socrate arrachant Alcibiade du sein de la Volupte Oil on canvas, 1791.
H. 46 cm (18 in.), W. 68 cm (26 ¾ in.)
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L'education d'Achille par le centaure Chiron L'Éducation d'Achille par le centaure Chiron (Achilles educated by Chiron). Oil on canvas, 1782.
cjr Painting ID:: 81493
Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault L'education d'Achille par le centaure Chiron L'Éducation d'Achille par le centaure Chiron (Achilles educated by Chiron). Oil on canvas, 1782.
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Socrate arrachant Alcibiade du sein de la Volupte Socrate arrachant Alcibiade du sein de la Voluptx (Socrates Tears Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure). Oil on canvas, 1791.
Dimensions H. 46 cm (18 in.), W. 68 cm (26 ¾ in.)
cjr Painting ID:: 81647
Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault Socrate arrachant Alcibiade du sein de la Volupte Socrate arrachant Alcibiade du sein de la Voluptx (Socrates Tears Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure). Oil on canvas, 1791.
Dimensions H. 46 cm (18 in.), W. 68 cm (26 ¾ in.)
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Paris 1754-1829
French painter. His first teacher was the history painter Jean Bardin, who took him to Rome in 1768. Back in Paris in 1772, he transferred to the studio of Nicolas-Bernard Lepicie. In 1776 he won the Prix de Rome with Alexander and Diogenes (Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.) and returned to Rome, where he was to spend the next four years at the Academie de France in the company of Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Francois-Pierre Peyron. While witnessing at first hand Peyron's development of a manner indebted to Poussin and David's conversion to Caravaggesque realism, Regnault inclined first towards a Late Baroque mode in a Baptism of Christ (untraced; recorded in two sketches and an etching), then, in Perseus Washing his Hands (1779; Louisville, KY, Speed A. Mus.), to the static Neo-classicism of Anton Raphael Mengs.