Jacques Réattu (1760-1833)
• Réattu was a French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome.
• He was born in Arles.
• He was an illegitimate son of the painter Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort and Catherine Raspal.
• Brother of his mother the painter Antoine Raspal gave him his first lessons in painting.
• In Paris, in 1773 he was a pupil of Jean-Antoine Julien.
• He entered the Academy in 1781.
• In 1790 he won the Prix de Rome.
• 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.
