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Henri Regnault (French, 1843-1871)
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Henri Regnault
Gypsy Girl
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Alexandre-Georges-Henri Regnault entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at the age of seventeen, studying first under Louis Lamothe and later Alexandre Cabanel. Greatly admired by his teachers and fellow students, he won the Prix de Rome in 1866. While in Rome, he came under the influence of the Spanish painter Mariano Fortuny and painted his first major canvas, Automedon with the Horse of Achilles, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1868 Regnault travelled to Spain and North Africa, making numerous drawings of local costumes and figure types. He sent paintings from Rome to each of the annual Salons between 1864 and 1870, with his massive equestrian portrait of General Juan Prim, now in the Louvre, winning a gold medal in 1869. Despite holding an exemption from military service as a winner of the Prix de Rome, Regnault returned to France at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. He died in the defense of Paris, at Buzenval in the outskirts of the city, on October 31, 1871. |
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