Nicolas Régnier
(1591-1667)
Boy with hat and pipe
oil painting on canvas
unsigned, Nicolas Régnier attributed
image size 44 x 35 cm
dimensions with frame 57 x 48 cm
detailed high-resolution photographs available on request
Biography
The painting style and the presentation of the painting point to the school of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. From its radius is also the painter Nicolas Regnier.
Nicolas Régnier (1591 Maubeuge - 1667 Venice), also known in Italy Niccolò Renieri, was a Flemish painter and art collector, active in Italy during the Baroque period. Initially worked as an apprentice in Antwerp with Abraham Janssens, painter, a contemporary of Caravaggio in Rome. It is unclear whether Régnier Rome in 1615 or 1621-25 reached. He met Bartolomeo Manfredi and Joachim von Sandrat. Régnier served as the official painter Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani - a prom. Patron of Caravaggio. In Rome came into close contact with Régnier Vouet Simon. From 1626 the artist lived in Venice. After caravaggiesken beginnings, where Régnier his example is so close that many of his works went under his name or even walk, he later comes under the influence of Bologne. Champion, defeated Guido Reni. Despite his long residence in Venice, he had no connection with the Venetians. School. Particularly appreciated by his contemporaries as a portraitist. Few of his pictures are literarily attested, no one called. The write-ups usually going back to H. Voss. Régnier paintings can be found at the Museum of the image. Arts in Budapest, Hungary, the State Gallery in Stuttgart and Detroit Institute of Arts. (Source: Thieme-Becker)