Henri Regnault Study for Orpheus in Hell (figure studies for the Fates) ca. 1865 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Achilles with the Body of Patroclus 1865 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Study of Torso before 1871 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Anatomical Studies of a Horse (Automedon with the Horses of Achilles) 1868 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Henri Regnault Figure Study for Automedon (Automedon with the Horses of Achilles) ca. 1868 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Figure Study for Automedon (Automedon with the Horses of Achilles) ca. 1868 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Automedon with the Horses of Achilles 1868 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Henri Regnault Drapery Study before 1871 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Study of Draped Model 1865 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Studies of Arm before 1871 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Summary Execution under the Moorish Kings of Granada 1870 oil on canvas Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Court of the Ambassadors in the Alhambra, Granada 1868 watercolor Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Portrait of Madame Louvancour 1867 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Portrait Study of Madame Fouques-Duparc ca. 1868 drawing Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
Henri Regnault Study for the Head of Salome ca. 1870 oil on canvas (bitumen-based pigment visibly degraded) Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries |
"Henri Regnault was born in Paris in 1843 and killed in 1871 in one of the last battles of the Franco-Prussian war. Yet the young man had already made a name for himself in the Paris art scene. After winning the Prix de Rome in 1868, he was the first not to spend the three compulsory years in the Italian capital that went with the prize but obtained permission to discover other cultures. He went to Spain . . . then briefly to North Africa, bringing back a number of astonishing canvases, flooded with light."