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JEAN BAPTISTE REGNAULT (1754-1829)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 46 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN
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BAPTISTE REGNAULT (1754-1829)
  , French painter, was born at Paris on the 9th of
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October 1754, and died in the same city on the 12th of November 1829 . He began
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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
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Grand Prix, and in 1783 he was elected Academician . His diploma picture, the "
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Education of Achilles by Chiron," is now in the Louvre, as also the " Christ taken down from the
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Cross," originally executed for the royal
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chapel at
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Fontainebleau, and two minor works—the " Origin of
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Painting " and"
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Pygmalion praying
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Venus to give Life to his Statue." Be-sides various small pictures and allegorical subjects, Regnault was also the author of many large
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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
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rival in influence of that of David .

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