Régnault Sarasin, born in Basel, Switzerland, was a Swiss painter and engraver. He studied in Basel and then in France where he developed his career. Régnault Sarasin beginning exhibiting early in his career – before World War I - in numerous galleries in Paris as well as in the various “salons”: the Galerie Le Chevallier, the famous Galerie Devambez, boulevard Malesherbes, the well known Galerie Georges-Petit, rue de Sèze, the Salon des Artistes Français, the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d’Automne.

He also exhibited at the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire, rue Volney, in Paris, at the Société des Peintres de Montagnes, at the Société Internationale d’Aquarellistes and at the Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts. In Paris, he was president of the Société des Artistes Suisses de Paris and member of the Cercle de l’Union Artistique.

His works received critical reviews beginning in 1911 when it was written that his works were “Très supérieurs à ce qu’on nous montre d’ordinaire” (much better than what is normally seen) and he was awarded many prizes during his career. Upon his arrival in Paris, Régnault-Sarasin lived in the rue de Victoire, later moving to the rue Scheffer, followed by Villa Guilbert and finally in the rue Decamps.

During this period he traveled throughout France and Europe as well as overseas. He painted numerous landscapes along with making films in French Indochine and in Morocco. In 1939, at the beginning of World War II, he returned to Basel and died in Ronco, in the Ticino canton, in 1943.