Nicolas Régnier

Nicolas Régnier, in Italy he was called Niccolò Renieri, (* 1588 in Maubeuge, † 1667 in Venice) was a Flemish Baroque painter who painted in imitation of Caravaggio and worked in Italy.

Life

It is often given as date of birth due to a misread birth certificate in 1591, but he was possibly born already in 1588 and in any case before 1593rd Regnier went to Antwerp with Abraham Janssens in the doctrine, one of the few painters of northern Europe, during the life of Caravaggio were in Rome. He went over Parma (where he was 1616/17 ) to Rome, where he was in the first half of the 1620s. There he was after Joachim von Sandrart a follower of Bartolomeo Manfredi ( one of the first imitator of Caravaggio ) and began in the style of Caravaggio or to paint in its interpretation by Manfredi. With the painting of Caravaggio, he was probably by his teacher Janssens familiar and perhaps by Lionello Spada, a painter at the court of the Farnese in Parma. Régnier was with Valentin de Boulogne main representatives of a more agreeable, gentlemanly interpretation of Caravaggio - style by Bartolomeo Manfredi ( by Annick Lemoine poetry of seduction or Caravaggism of seduction called ), in contrast to Dutch Caravaggists as Gerrit van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen that Caravaggio himself followed closely and realistically painted. More French Caravaggists were Nicolas Tournier (1590-1639) and Claude Vignon ( 1593-1670 ).

At first he lived in Rome with the painters David de Haen and Dirck van Baburen also Caravaggisti. He was in Rome the official painter and a member of the court of Duke Vincenzo Giustiniani, a former patron of Caravaggio. He was also closely associated in Rome with Simon Vouet and other French painters of Caravaggio's. Régnier painted genre scenes like card players, fortune tellers and con artists, soldiers, carnival scenes, portraits and religious subjects.

1626 he went to Venice, where he acted alongside his painting with antiques and paintings, and a generally admired personal collection amassed. He there painted less in the way of Caravaggio but in more decorative style, where he was influenced by Guido Reni. He was there a friend of the painter Guido Cagnacci. He remained until his death in Venice.

His paintings are in many museums in the world, so in Budapest ( Card-player and soothsayers ), Sarasota (Saint Matthew and the Angel ), Stuttgart ( Amnon and Tamar, Pandora ), Detroit ( Mary Magdalene as a penitent ), Bordeaux ( Renaud and Armide ) in the Louvre ( fortune tellers / La chanteuse de Bonne Aventure ) and in Berlin and Sans Souci ( Eucharist), Cambridge / Massachusetts ( Fogg Art Gallery, self Portrait with easel), Lyon ( Young woman at Her Toilette ), Dijon (David and Goliath, Young Man ), Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna ( Mary Magdalene ), Zwinger in Dresden ( Saint Sebastian ), Rouen ( St. Sebastian ), Grenoble ( man with Guitar ), Rome ( Gallery Spada, David and Goliath ), Lille ( playing soldiers), Hermitage (John the Baptist, St. Sebastian ) and Warsaw (Carnival scene, circa 1630, that is, from Venice). A portrait of Gabriel Naudé is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. The Gemäldegalerie in Berlin in particular has paintings from the Giustiniani collection ( from the King Frederick William III. In 1815 bought up a large scale ), in which nine of Regnier's paintings were ( including the Potsdamer Supper ) A Saint Jerome from a church in Padua, which is still 1974 at the Paris Caravaggio exhibition was shown, is stolen (as of 2008). In Venice there is a Baptism of Christ in the church of San Salvatore and an Annunciation in the Scuola Grande di San Marco.

Because he painted like other Caravaggio 's successor in a similar style are many attributions uncertain. Acquaintance he was driven by an exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris 1974 French Caravaggisti.

He had four daughters (Angelica, Anna, Clorinda, Lucrezia ), who were known for their beauty - a daughter Clorinda Renieri married the Venetian painter Pietro della Vecchia ( 1603-1678 ) and was himself a painter, another daughter Lucrezia the painter Daniel van den Dyck ( 1610-1670 ). Both painters were students of Régnier. It is recorded that he was acting as an art dealer with fakes, who prepared his son Pietro della Vecchia (for example, an alleged Titian Self-Portrait in the National Gallery in Washington). He had a half-brother Michele Desubleo, who also worked as a painter in Rome and painted in a similar style.

Gallery

Card fraudsters and Fortune Teller, 1620-1622, Budapest

Guessing game, 1620-1625, Uffizi

John the Baptist, Hermitage

According player with girls, private collection

Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani

Men Portrait, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

St. Sebastian, Hermitage

Self-portrait in painting, Cambridge ( full image )

Mary Magdalene in penitence, Lazienki Palace, Warsaw

Allegory of Vanity / Pandora, 1626 State Gallery Stuttgart

Portrait of a gentleman, private collection

Mourners Mary Magdalene, private collection

Fortune Teller, National Museum Stockholm

Vanity, 1626, Lyon