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Alexandre Georges Henri Regnault (31 October 1843 – 19 January 1871) was a French painter.

Henri Regnault
Born	Alexandre Georges Henri Regnault (1843-10-31)31 October 1843 Paris, France
Died	19 January 1871(1871-01-19) (aged 27) Rueil-Malmaison, France
Education	École des Beaux-Arts French Academy in Rome
Notable work	Salomé (1870)
Style	French Orientalism
Parent(s)	Henri Victor Regnault (father)
Awards	Prix de Rome (1866)
Military career
Allegiance	France
Branch	French Army
Service years	1870–1871
Battles/wars	Franco-Prussian War   Siege of Paris     2nd Battle of Buzenval †

Biography

Regnault was born in Paris, the son of Henri Victor Regnault. On leaving school he successively entered the studios of Antoine Montfort, Louis Lamothe and Alexandre Cabanel, was beaten for the Prix de Rome (1863) by Joseph Layraud and Xaiver Monchablon, and in 1864 exhibited two unremarkable portraits at the Paris Salon. In 1866, however, he carried off the Prix de Rome with a work of unusual force and distinction Thetis bringing the Arms forged by Vulcan to Achilles (School of the Fine Arts).

The past in Italy did not touch him, but his illustrations to Wey's Rome[1] show how observant he was of actual life and manners; even his Automedon (School of Fine Arts), executed in obedience to Academical regulations, was but a lively recollection of a carnival horse-race. At Rome, moreover, Regnault came into contact with the modern Hispano-Italian school, a school highly materialistic and inclined to regard even the human subject only as one amongst many sources of visual amusement. The vital, if narrow, energy of this school told on Regnault with ever-increasing force during the few remaining years of his life.

In 1868 he had sent to the Salon a life-size portrait of a lady in which he had made one of the first attempts to render the actual character of fashionable modern life. While making a tour in Spain, he saw General Juan Prim pass at the head of his troops, and received that lively image of a military demagogue which he afterwards put on canvas, somewhat to the displeasure of his subject. But this work made an appeal to the imagination of the public, whilst all the later productions of Regnault were addressed exclusively to the eye.

After a further trip to North Africa, abridged by the necessities of his position as a pensioner of the school of Rome, he painted Judith, then, in 1870, Salomé, and, as a work due from the Roman school, dispatched from Tangier the large canvas, Execution Without Hearing Under the Moorish Kings, in which the painter had played with the blood of the victim as if he were a jeweller toying with rubies. The Franco-Prussian War arose, and found Regnault foremost in the devoted ranks of the Battle of Buzenval, where he fell on 19 January 1871.[2]

His friend, the composer Camille Saint-Saëns dedicated his Marche héroïque (1871) to Regnault's memory. The sculptor Henri Chapu erected a monument to him in the courtyard of the École des Beaux-Arts in 1872. Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier painted him in the centre of his Le siège de Paris as the soldier collapsed against the personification of Paris.

Gallery

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  Thetis bringing the Arms forged by Vulcan to Achilles (1866), Beaux-Arts de Paris
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  Automedon with the Horses of Achilles (1868), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  Salomé (1870), Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Execution Without Hearing Under the Moorish Kings (1870), Musée d'Orsay

See also

• List of Orientalist artists

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Regnault, Henri". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 46.
• Gotlieb, M. (2016). The Deaths of Henri Regnault. University of Chicago Press.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Henri Regnault.

• Works by Henri Regnault at Open Library
• Works by or about Henri Regnault at Internet Archive

На других языках

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[de] Henri Regnault (Maler)

Henri Regnault (* 31. Oktober 1843 in Paris; † 19. Januar 1871, bei Schloss Buzenval in Rueil-Malmaison gefallen) war ein französischer Maler orientalistischer Ausrichtung.

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- [en] Henri Regnault

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[es] Henri Regnault

Alexandre Georges Henri Regnault, (París 31 de octubre de 1843 - Rueil-Malmaison 19 de enero de 1871 (en la Batalla de Buzenval[1]), fue un pintor orientalista francés.

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[fr] Henri Regnault

Alexandre George Henri Regnault né le 31 octobre 1843 à Paris et mort le 19 janvier 1871 à Rueil-Malmaison (à la bataille de Buzenval)[1], est un peintre français.

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[it] Henri Regnault

Henri Regnault (Parigi, 31 ottobre 1843 – Rueil-Malmaison, 19 gennaio 1871) è stato un pittore francese.

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[ru] Реньо, Анри

Алекса́ндр Жорж Анри́ Реньо́ (фр. Alexandre Georges Henri Regnault; 31 октября 1843 (1843-10-31) — 19 января 1871) — французский художник, по характеристике Энциклопедии Брокгауза и Ефрона «один из даровитейших французских живописцев новейшего времени».

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