François Reynaud (1825-1909)

Very nice is the scene of the boy looking lovingly at the little monkey he trains in the circus where he works and this can be deduced from the dress he wears, the shoes reminiscent of those of Degas' dancers and the drum used to train the monkey . the scene is full of colors, tenderness and love.

François Reynaud is a French painter and designer born in 1825 in Marseille, died on March 9, 1909.
François Reynaud is a student of Augustin Aubert and Émile Loubon (he will leave a portrait of the second) at the École des beaux-arts in Marseille.

The features of François Reynaud are restored to us by his Self-portrait preserved in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Marseille.

Exhibitions:
- Salon of painting and sculpture, Paris, from 1848 to 1891.
- Roubaix Exhibition, 18692.
- Universal Exhibition of 1889.
- The landscape in the Mayenne collections, Musée du Vieux-Château, Laval (Mayenne), 19853.

François Reynaud often worked in Savoy but also in Italy, which explains the light touch in the indication of his characters, the skillful orchestration of his small peasant scenes often collected in the countryside around Naples.

Museums and public collections:
-Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, Portrait of Émile Loubon, painting.
-Musée Gassendi, Digne, The bagpiper, painting.
-Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, The end of the day, The Lazzaroni in Naples, Street in Zaragoza, Self-portrait, paintings.
-Musée Cantini, Marseille, Italian of Sorrento, Young Neapolitan, The source, Portrait of a young girl, paintings.
-Palais Longchamp, Marseille, Landscape, painting.
-Museum of art and history of Narbonne, Popular district of San Remo, painting.
-Department of graphic arts of the Louvre Museum, drawings, mainly views of Naples.
-Musée Tavet-Delacour, Pontoise, Provencal fishermen, A dispute, paintings.
-Museum of Fine Arts of Reims, Fête à Naples, painting.
-Musée Denys-Puech, Rodez, Les Abruzziens à Naples, painting.
-The Swimming Pool - Museum of Art and Industry André Diligent, Roubaix, Les décicheuses: two young women remove a nest from the rock where they are sitting; near them, an urn receiving water from a spring which flows like a stream of water from the rock, painting.
-Community of communes of Erve et Charnie, Sainte-Suzanne-et-Chammes, Bowlers by the sea, painting


Private collections:
Henri Husson collection, Mesnil-Saint-Denis castle.