Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
A portrait fastened to a single day
The title carries a date: October 8, 1868. Most mounted portraits float free of the calendar, and that is part of their claim, since rank is meant to be permanent and a picture asserting it does not want a timestamp. This one takes the opposite route and names a day, which turns the portrait into the record of an occasion and the animal into the mount a man happened to be on.
What the record holds
The date of creation is also 1868 and the location is the Musée d"Orsay in Paris, one of 14 records here that name that collection. The dimensions are not recorded. Romanticism is the recorded style, French the recorded nationality, and the measured colour family of the image is ochre. Male portraiture and Animal Art > Horse are the only subject headings.
The occasion is named, not described
What happened on the day in the title is not in this record, and this page does not import it. The catalogue holds a title, a year, a collection and a set of headings. The political event standing behind them belongs to sources this site does not consult.
Sources
4 references- Regnault, Henri — Getty ULAN
French painter, 1843-1871
- Henri Regnault — Wikipedia
Alexandre Georges Henri Regnault (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ʒɔʁʒ ɑ̃ʁi ʁəɲo]; 31 October 1843 – 19 January 1871) was a French painter. == Biography == Regnault was born in Paris, the son of Henri Victor Regnault. On leaving school he
- Juan Prim, October 8, 1868 — Wikidata
description: painting by Henri Regnault; inception: 1869-01-01; dimensions: 315 × 258 cm; collection: Musée d'Orsay
- Henri regnault, juan prim, 8 ottobre 1868, 1869, 01 — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
