Jacques Réattu
Subtitle: arelatensis, 1760-1833 : un rêve d'artiste
By: [édité par] Daniel Rouvier
Contributors: Rouvier, Daniel, editor; Musée Réattu; Chapelle Sainte-Anne (Arles, France)
Publisher: Somogy; Musée Réattu
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Paris; Arles
Language: fre
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9782757213018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Artists; Biography
Work titles: Works
Description: He entered the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1775 and was awarded the Prix de Rome prize in 1790. Jacques Réattu is a great painter of a key period in history (the French Revolution) and the history of art (Neoclassicism). Among his best-known works are the decoration of the Temple of Reason in Marseilles - a series of eight monumental paintings painted in grisaille in imitation of bas-reliefs and illustrating the revolutionary ideals - his theatrical and theatrical projects, city ​​hotels in Marseille, Nimes and Lyon and a religious setting for the church of St Paul de Beaucaire. In this first retrospective devoted to him, more than 100 paintings and 200 drawings interact with the works of his contemporaries.--Musée Réattu
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition presented at the musée Reattu and the chapelle Sainte-Anne, Arles, France, from September 16, 2017 to January 7, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-378) and indexes.