Henri Regnault (painter)

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Bust of Henri Regnault by Louis-Ernest Barrias

Henri Regnault (born October 31, 1843 in Paris , † January 19, 1871 , died at Buzenval Castle in Rueil-Malmaison ) was a French painter with an orientalist orientation.

Life

After completing his school career at the Lycée Henri IV , the son of the respected physicist and chemist Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878) successfully applied to a studio in Montfort, among others . He was already a successful artist in the 1860s. In 1864 he exhibited two of his paintings in Salon-de-Provence . In 1866 Regnault was in charge of the painting Thetis, Achilles bringing the weapons to a longer period of study in Italy associated Grand Prix de Rome of it to which he had just three years earlier vain.

During his three-year trip through Italy, he came into contact with the local art movement and experienced its influence. In Rome he was awarded the municipal art prize. He also traveled to Spain to familiarize himself with the art there. There he painted the portrait of General Juan Prim in 1869 , which was also shown to the audience in Salon-de-Provence. During his stay in Spain, he briefly traveled to northern Africa, and from there he also sent paintings to France, which were distinguished above all for their light permeation. In 1870 he painted the picture Execution without a verdict among the Moorish kings in Granada , which was exhibited in his honor in 1872 in the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris after his death .

Henri Regnault was shot in the head in the Battle of Buzenval in 1871 at the age of 27 during the Franco-Prussian War .

honors and awards

  • 1866: Grand Prix de Rome
  • 1869: Gold medal from the Paris Salon
  • 1870: Medal from the Paris Salon for Salomé

Exhibitions

Hassan and Namuna
  • 1869: Paris Salon
  • 1870: Paris Salon
  • 1872: posthumous retrospective of the École des beaux-arts (March 12th to April 6th, 1872)

Selection of works

  • around 1862: Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) . Oil on canvas, 33 × 24.5 cm, Versailles , Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et des Trianons
  • 1866: Thétis apportant à Achille les armes forgées par Vulcain (Thetis, bringing arms to Achilles), oil on canvas, Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
  • 1867: Jeune Portefaix à Malte (Young Arms Bearer in Malta), oil on paper, marouflaged on canvas , 40.3 × 32 cm, Dijon , Musée Magnin
  • 1868: Automédon ramenant les coursiers d'Achille des bords du Scamandre (Automedon with the horses of Achillus), oil on canvas, 55 × 45 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay
  • 1868: Portrait of General Prim , oil on canvas, 315 × 258 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre
  • 1870: Exécution sans jugement sous les rois maures de Grenade (execution without judgment among the Moorish kings of Grenada), oil on canvas, 305 × 146 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay
  • 1870: Salomé (Salome), Salon 1870, oil on canvas, 160 × 103 cm, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

literature

  • Henri Cazalis : Henri Regnault, sa vie et son œuvre . Lemierre, Paris 1872
  • Arthur Duparc (Ed.): Correspondance d'Henri Regnault, annotée et recueillie par Arthur Duparc, suivie du catalog complet de l'œuvre de H. Regnault . Charpentier et Cie, Paris 1873
  • Marc Gotlieb: How canons disappear. The case of Henri Regnault . In: Elizabeth Mansfield: Art History and Its Institutions . Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-415-22869-7
  • Roger Marx : Henri Regnault (1843-1871) . Paris 1886
  • Regnault, Henri . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 23 : Refectory - Sainte-Beuve . London 1911, p. 46 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Commons : Henri Regnault  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short review of Regnault's pictures  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.musee-orsay.fr  
personal data
SURNAME Regnault, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1871
Place of death Rueil-Malmaison