Jacques Réattu
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Jacques Réattu (3 August 1760, Arles - 7 April 1833, Arles) was a French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome. He was an illegitimate son of the painter Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort and Catherine Raspal, sister of the Arles-born painter Antoine Raspal - Antoine gave him his first lessons in painting.
In Paris, in 1773 he was a pupil of Jean-Antoine Julien said Julien Parme, then entered the Academy in 1781, where protected by Michel Francois Dandre-Bardon, he was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. In 1790 he won the Prix de Rome, thanks to an array, always kept at the National School of Fine Arts: Daniel stop making the old accusers of the chaste Susanna. Following anti-French riots of the Roman population, he fled to Naples, where he could return to France. Réattu bequeathed to his hometown of many works including an unfinished Death of Alcibiades, which is a testament to his working method. In his tribute, the town of Arles was named the museum established at the site of his residence.