This is the first book in English on Henri Regnault (1843–71), a forgotten star of the European fin-de-siecle. A brilliant maverick who once seemed to hold the future of French painting in his hands,
"This groundbreaking publication centers on a previously unknown variation of Eugaene Delacroix's (1798-1863) dramatic masterpiece The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, published here for the