Nicolas Régnier

Woman with the mirror or Vanity, c. 1626

Nicolas Regnier's La Diseuse de Bonne Aventure, 1626, Musée du Louvre.

Nicolas Régnier, c. 1626, Allegory of Vanity - Pandora. It shows a jar, not box.

Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667), alternatively Niccolò Renieri, Niccolo Renieri, Niccolò Renieri, Nicolaas Regnier, Nicolaas Renier, Nicolas Renier, Nicolas Renieri in Italian, was a Flemish painter and art collector, active in Italy during the Baroque period.

Born in Maubeuge, he initially apprenticed in Antwerp with Abraham Janssens, a painter contemporary with Caravaggio in Rome. It is unclear if Régnier reached Rome in 1615 or 1621–1625. He appears to have met Bartolomeo Manfredi, of whom, Joachim von Sandrart calls him a follower. Régnier served as official painter to Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, a prominent patron of Caravaggio. In Rome Régnier was also in close contact with Simon Vouet. By 1626, Régnier had moved to Venice, where in addition to painting, he began dealing in antiquities and paintings. In Venice, he was befriended Guido Cagnacci. He died in Venice.

Paintings by Nicolas Regnier can be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary; the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in Germany; National Museum of Serbia and the Detroit Institute of Arts. The painting of the Allegory of Vanity-Pandora is in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

Œuvres

(selected works)

Allegory of Vanity - Pandora (1626), private collection

Cardsharps and Fortune Teller (1620-1622), Museum of Fine Arts - Budapest

Carnival scene (1630), National Museum, Warsaw

The Death of Sophonisba (1665-1667), New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester

Guessing Game(1620-1625), Galleria Uffizi - Florence

La diseuse de bonne aventure (The Fortune Teller), Nicolas Régnier (1625-1626), Musée du Louvre

Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani (1630)

A Musician Playing a Lute to a Singing Girl (1621-1622), private collection

The Penitent Magdalen (1650-1660), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Penitent Mary Magdalene, private collection

Portrait of Maria Farnese (1638)

Saint John the Baptist (1615-1620), Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg

Saint Sebastian (1620), Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg

Saint Sebastian (1622-1625), Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister - Dresden

Saint Sebastian Tended by the Holy Irene (1750-1760), Ferens Art Gallery - Hull

Self-Portrait with a Portrait on an Easel (1623-1624), Fogg Museum of Art - University of Harvard

Sleeper Awakened by a Young Woman with a Lit Wick (also known as Fortune Telling Scene), National Museum of Fine Arts - Stockholm

Vanity(1626), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

References

• Biography, Web Gallery of Art

Further reading

• Lemoine, Annick, "Nicolas Régnier", The Art Tribune (La Tribune de l'Art).
• Lemoine, Annick, Nicolas Régnier (alias Niccolò Renieri) ca. 1588-1667 peintre, collectionneur et marchand d'art, 2007, Arthena (Paris). ISBN 978-2-903239-37-4

External links

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