Jean-Baptiste Regnault
(1754–1829) fransk målare
Jean-Baptiste Regnault (France, 1754–1829) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jean-Baptiste Regnault belongs to the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’ in this site’s history of art.
Jean-Baptiste Regnault was born in Paris and died in Paris. Jean-Baptiste Regnault trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The teachers included Jean Bardin, Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, and Joseph-Marie Vien. Jean-Baptiste Regnault worked in Paris. Wikidata associates Jean-Baptiste Regnault with Neoclassicism. Jean-Baptiste Regnault became a member of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Prix de Rome and Knight of the Legion of Honour. The students included Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny, Louis Hersent, Henriette Lorimier, and Jean-Michel Mercier.
The best-known works include ‘The Origin of Sculpture’, ‘The Origin of Painting’, ‘Death of Cleopatra’, and ‘The Genius of France between Freedom and Death’. The works belong mainly to the genre history painting. The catalogue has 39 works by Jean-Baptiste Regnault with free images. The dated works span the years 1778–1900. Works by Jean-Baptiste Regnault are held by several collections, among them Département des peintures du Louvre, Department of Paintings of the Louvre, Musée de l'Histoire de France, and Nationalmuseum. Wikidata links 5 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Henri-Pierre Danloux, Agustín Esteve y Marques, Johann Heinrich Baumann, Jonas Forsslund, and Andrea Appiani.