REGNAULT, re-nyY, HENRI ( 1843-71). A French figure and genre painter. He was born in Paris October 30, 1843. After a bril liant record in classical studies, he entered the atelier of Lamothe, and afterwards that of Ca banel, won the Prix de Rome in 1866, and during the two years spent at Rome he de signed, among other illustrations, those for Wey's Rome. Among his paintings executed at the same time was "La dame en rouge." In 1868 he went to Spain, and while at Madrid he devoted himself especially to the study of Velaz quez, whose influence appears in his equestrian portrait of Marshal Prim, one of the finest of the century. Refused by the sitter, it was taken by the artist to Paris, where it created a great sensation in the Salon of 1869, and is now hung in the Louvre. From the same year dates his "Judith," and in 1870 he exhibited "Salome," a symphony in yellow—an incarnation of sensual cruelty. In that year he went to Morocco, whence he sent his famous symphony in red, the "Moorish Headman"—a type of the dreamy cruel ty of Oriental fatalism. But hearing of the dis
astrous opening of the Franco-German War, he hastened back to Paris, and, enlisting in a regi ment, was killed at the sortie of Buzenval, Janu ary 19, 1871. In the following year the pupils of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts erected a monument to him in the chief court of that school. Regnault was the greatest of the fol lowers of Delacroix (q.v.), whose worthy heir he was, both as regards temperament and technique. He resembled him in brush work and in color, and his drawing is even surer. Consult: Regnault's Correspondence, edited by Duparc (Paris, 1872), and his biography by Bailliere (ib., 1871-72), Cazalis (ib., 1872), Timbal (ib., 1872), Larroumet ib., 1886). and Roger Marx, in Les artistes ecicbris (ib., 1886).