Jacques Réattu (; 3 August 1760,

Arles Arles ( , , ; ; Classical ) is a coastal city and Communes of France, commune in the South of France, a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture in the Bouches-du-Rhône Departments of France, department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Reg ...

– 7 April 1833, Arles) was a French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome. He was an illegitimate son of the painter Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort and Catherine Raspal, sister of the Arles-born painter Antoine Raspal – Antoine gave him his first lessons in painting. In Paris, in 1773 he was a pupil of Jean-Antoine Julien, then entered the Academy in 1781, with Michel Francois Dandre-Bardon as a patron, he was a pupil of

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. In 1790 he won the Prix de Rome, thanks to a work, currently exhibited at the

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in Paris, ''Daniel faisant arrêter les vieillards accusateurs de la chaste Suzanne''. Following anti-French riots of the Roman population, he fled to Naples, from where he could return to France. Réattu bequeathed to his hometown many works including an unfinished ''Death of Alcibiades'', which is a testament to his working method. The town of Arles named the Musée Réattu established at the site of his residence in his honour.

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* Katrin Simons, ''Jacques Réattu, 1760–1833, Peintre de la Révolution française'', Arthéna, Alençon, 1995, * Catalogue de l'exposition au

Musée de la Révolution française The Musée de la Révolution française (Museum of the French Revolution) is a departments of France, departmental museum in the French town of Vizille, south of Grenoble on the Route Napoléon. It is the only museum in the world dedicated to the ...

, '' Jacques Réattu sous le signe de la Révolution'', Actes Sud, Arles, 2000, * Katrin Simons, '' Musée Réattu, catalogue No.2 Jacques Réattu, portrait d'un musée'', Musée d'Arles, 1989, ISSN 0982-2291

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