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Regnaudin, Thomas
(b Moulins, bapt 18 Feb 1622; d Paris, 3 July 1706). French sculptor. He was the son of a master mason. After initial training in Moulins he entered the Paris workshop of François Anguier, with whom he worked on the tomb of Henri II de Montmorency (Moulins, Chapel of the Lycée), carving marble allegorical statues of Religion and Military Valour (1649–52; in situ). He collaborated with such older sculptors as Philippe de Buyster at the convent of Port-Royal (c. 1648; works destr.), Paris, Gilles Guérin in the Chambre du Roi at the Louvre (1654; decorative works remounted in the second room of the Colonnade), Paris, and Thibault Poissant in the chapel of the château of Saint-Fargeau (c. 1655–66; works destr.), Yonne. In 1657, on presentation of an oval relief medallion of St John the Baptist (marble; Versailles, Notre-Dame), he was received (reçu) as a member of the Académie Royale, where he became a professor (1658) and assistant rector (1694). His long and successful career was largely founded on commissions from the Bâtiments du Roi, but he also received work from religious houses and private patrons.
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