Henri Regnault
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Alexandre Georges Henri Regnault was a French painter.
Henri Regnault par Berthaud
Statue of Regnault on the facade of Paris' Hôtel de Ville.
Thetis bringing the Arms forged by Vulcan to Achilles (1866), Beaux-Arts de Paris
Automedon with the Horses of Achilles (1868), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Thetis
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Thetis is a figure from Greek mythology with varying mythological roles. She mainly appears as a sea nymph, a goddess of water, and one of the 50 Nereids, daughters of the ancient sea god Nereus.
Henri Regnault
…exhibited two unremarkable portraits at the Paris Salon. In 1866, however, he carried off the Prix de Rome with a work of unusual force and distinction Thetis bringing the Arms forged by Vulcan to Achilles (École de Beaux-Arts). The past in Italy did not touch him, but his illustrations to Wey's Rome show how…
Statue of Thetis with a young Triton, Roman copy
Immortal Thetis with the mortal Peleus in the foreground, Boeotian black-figure dish, c. 500–475 BC - Louvre
Thetis changing into a lioness as she is attacked by Peleus, Attic red-figured kylix by Douris, c. 490 BC from Vulci, Etruria - Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris
Thetis dips Achilles in the Styx by Peter Paul Rubens (between 1630 and 1635)