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See also: born at See also: Paris on the 31St See also: October 1843, was the son of See also: Henri Victor See also: Regnault (q.v.)
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On leaving school he successively entered the studios of Montfort, Lamothe and See also: Cabanel, was beaten for the See also: Grand Prix (1863) by Layraud and Montchablon, and in 1864 exhibited two portraits in no wise remarkable at the See also: Salon
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In 1866, however, he carried off the Grand Prix with a See also: work of unusual force and distinction—" See also: Thetis bringing the Arms forged by See also: Vulcan to See also: Achilles " (School of the See also: Fine Arts)
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The past in See also: Italy did not touch him, but his illustrations to Wey's See also: Rome show how observant he was of actual See also: life and See also: manners; even his " Automedon " (School of Fine Arts), executed in obedience to Academical regulations, was but a lively recollection of a carnival See also: horse-See also: race
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At Rome, moreover, Regnault came into contact with the See also: modern Hispano-See also: Italian school, a school highly materialistic and inclined to regard even the human subject only as one amongst many See also: sources whence to obtain amusement for the See also: eye
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The vital, if narrow, energy of this school told on Regnault with ever-increasing force during the few remaining years of his life
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In 1868 he had sent to the Salon a life-See also: size portrait of a lady in which he had made one of the first attempts to render the actual character of fashionable modern life
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While making a tour in See also: Spain, he saw Prim pass at the See also: head of his troops, and received that lively image of a military demagogue which he afterwards put on See also: canvas, somewhat to the displeasure of his subject
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But this work made an See also: appeal to the See also: imagination of the public, whilst all the later productions of Regnault were addressed exclusively to the eye
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After a further See also: flight to See also: Africa, abridged by the necessities of his position as a pensioner of the school of Rome, he painted " See also: Judith," then (187o) " See also: Salome," and, as a work due from the See also: Roman school, despatched from See also: Tangier the large canvas, " Execution without Hearing under the Moorish See also: Kings," in which the painter had played with the See also: blood of the victim as if he were a jeweller toying with rubies
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The war arose, and found Regnault foremost in the devoted ranks of Buzenval, where he See also: fell on the 19th of See also: January 1871
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See Correspondance de H
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Regnault; Duparc, H . Regnault, sa See also: vie et son muvre; See also: Cazalis, H
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Regnault, 1843-1871; Bailliere, See also: Les Artistes de mon temps; C
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Blanc, H
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Regnault; P
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Mantz, See also: Gazette See also: des See also: Beaux Arts (1872)
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