Nicolas Regnier, Ca.1588-1667 Peintre, Collectionneur Et Marchand D'art

Trained in Antwerp in Abraham Janssens' workshop, emulator of Caravaggio in Rome, follower of Guido Reni in Venice, painter, collector, expert and art dealer, Nicolas Régnier certainly was one of the most atypical artists of his era. Arrived in Rome ca. 1618-1619, he stood as one of the major representatives of Caravaggism, with paintings of an intransigent and sophisticated naturalism. In Venice, where he set up in 1626, Nicolas Régnier moved towards an extremely refined painting, combining eroticism and melodrama. From the end of the 1630s, he became one of the most important art-brokers in Venice, to whom European princes and great nobility appealed to enrich their collections. Régnier also was a passionate collector, who had gathered at the end of his life paintings by Giorgione, Dürer, Tiziano, Guido Reni or Rubens.

This book by Annick Lemoine reconsiders all the activities of Nicolas Régnier, with a catalogue raisonné of his paintings.