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painter, pupil of Cabanel and of César de Cock. Medal, 3d class, 1876. Works: Path in Woods of Sèvres, Pond in Woods of Chaville (1873); In the Woods, Autumn, Repose (1875); Grandmother's Portrait (1876), Luxembourg Museum; Bad News, Violetta (1878); Flotsam (1879); Antonietta (1880); Palm Sunday, The Little Arm of the Orge at Athis (1882); Repose, Seamstress Day (1883); Sweet Slumber (1885).


RENÉ D'ANJOU, surnamed the Good, born in castle of Angers in 1408, died in Provence in 1480. French school; illuminator, painter, poet, and patron of arts; second son of Louis II., Duke of Anjou, Comte de Provence and titular King of Naples. Summonzio, the Neapolitan writer, says that King René was a good painter in the Flemish style, but several pictures attributed to him are now shown to be by another hand; as, for example, the famous Triptych with the Burning Bush, etc., in the Cathedral at Aix, a work of Nicolas Froment of Avignon (1475), who was in King René's employ; and another Triptych by the same hand in the Uffizi. The illuminated MS. of "La tres douce mercy" (1497), at Vienna, is admitted to be the King's handiwork. Many pictures attributed to him in churches at Aix, Angers, Lyons, Avignon, and Marseilles, were destroyed during the revolution. Works attributed to King René: Diptych, Vision of S. Bernardino of Siena, Coronation of Virgin, Hospital at Villeneuve; Praying Cardinal, Avignon Museum; Portraits of Charles VII., and Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.—W. & W., ii. 78; Schnaase, viii. 321; Müntz, La Renaissance, 481; Michiels, iii. 187; Œuvres complètes du Roi René avec une biographie (Angers, 1845).


RENI, GUIDO. See Guido Reni.


RENOIR; contemporary. Genre, portrait, landscape, flower, and fruit painter; impressionist. Of his works were exhibited in New York, 1886: Femme au Corset, Head of Young Girl, The Bather (2), Flowers (2), Apples, Melons and Figs, Young Lady in a Garden, Fishermen's Children, On the Terrace, Déjeuner at Bougival, Box at the Opera, Rain in Paris, Dance at Bougival, Windy Day at Guernsey, In the Circus, A Servant, The Bath, Sail-Boats on the Argenteuil, Bather on Seashore, Woman Reading, Venice, After the Bath, Peonies, Child's Toilet, Preparing for the Bath, Geraniums and Cats, Summer, Winter, On Shore, Six Portraits.—La France, Dec. 8, 1884.



RENOUF, ÉMILE, born in Paris, June 23, 1845. Landscape, marine, and genre painter, pupil of Boulanger, Jules Lefèbvre, and Carolus-Duran. Medals: Paris, 2d class, 1880; Munich, 1st class, 1883. Visited America in October, 1886. Works: Views near Honfleur (1870, 1872, 1873, 1875, 1877); After the Rain at Sunset, Tourne donc, mousse! (1876); Valley in Finistère (1877)! Maison du Haut-du-Vent at Mouth of the Seine (1878); End of Day, Last Repair, my poor friend! (1879); The Widow, La Pierre-des-Pendus (1880); A coup de main, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; After a Gust of Wind (1881); The Pilot (Wm. Schaus, New York), Lizzie (1883); Sunset (1884); A Tar (1885); Adrift (1886).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 758; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xix. 258.


RENOUX, CHARLES CAÏUS, born in Paris in 1795, died there, March 15, 1846. Landscape and architecture painter. Medals: 2d class, 1822; 1st class, 1831; L. of Honour, 1838. Works: Interior of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (1824), formerly in Luxembourg Museum; Views at Montélimart, Corps, and near Gérame, Subterranean do. in the Arena at Arles, Interior in 16th Century (1831); Taking of Château de l'Escalcette, 1676, do. of Ghent, 1678, do. of Philipsbourg, 1688, do. of Roses, 1693, do. of Palamos, 1694, Treaty between the Crusaders and Venetians in St. Mark's, 1201 (1839), Marriage of the Duc de Berry, 1816