JEAN

See also:

• BAPTISTE

BAPTISTE

See also:

• REGNAULT, HENRI (1843-1871)
• REGNAULT, HENRI VICTOR (1810-1878)
• JEAN BAPTISTE REGNAULT (1754-1829)

REGNAULT (1754-1829)  , French painter, was born at Paris on the 9th of October 1754, and died in the same city on the 12th of November 1829 . He began life at sea in a merchant vessel, but at the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin . After his return to Paris, Regnault, in 1776, obtained the Grand Prix, and in 1783 he was elected Academician . His diploma picture, the " Education of Achilles by Chiron," is now in the Louvre, as also the " Christ taken down from the Cross," originally executed for the royal chapel at Fontainebleau, and two minor works—the " Origin of Painting " and" Pygmalion praying Venus to give Life to his Statue." Be-sides 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 Guerin, Crepin, Lafitte, Blondel, Robert Lefevre and Menjaud, was for a long while the rival in influence of that of David .