REGNAUDIN, Thomas

French sculptor. He was the son of a stonemason of Moulins, he came to Paris to pursue artistic studies. He trained in François Anguier’s studio and he collaborated with Michel Anguier, François Girardon and Jean-Baptiste Tuby. In 1657 he was received at the Royal Academy with an oval marble bas-relief depicting St John the Baptist, and the following year he became a professor there. In 1687, he obtained a third prize of Rome in sculpture.

He worked at the Louvre, the Tuileries, the Château de Fontainebleau and the Château de Versailles where he worked on several sets of fountains. Some of Regnaudin’s works were placed in the Apollo Gallery of the Louvre.

Overall, he remains a second-rate sculptor and does not enjoy much notoriety, having often worked under the direction of better known sculptors.