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REGNAULT, JEAN BAPTISTE (1754-1829)

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

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