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Jean II Restout
Jean II Restout

Jean II Restout

French, 1692 - 1768

Jean II Restout was a French painter, whose late baroque classicism rendered his altarpieces, such as the Death of Saint Scholastica an "isolated achievement" that ran counter to his rococo contemporaries.

Jean Restout was born in Rouen, the son of Jean I Restout and Marie M. Jouvenet, sister and pupil of the then well-known painter Jean Jouvenet.

In 1717, the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture having elected him a member on his work for the Prix de Rome, he remained in Paris, instead of proceeding to Italy, exhibited at all the salons, and filled successively every post of academical distinction. His works, chiefly altar-pieces (Louvre Museum), ceilings and designs for Gobelin tapestries, were engraved by Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Drevet and others.

His son, Jean-Bernard Restout (1732–1797), won the Prix de Rome in 1758, and on his return from Italy was received into the Academy; but his refusal to comply with rules led to a quarrel with that body. Roland appointed him keeper of the Garde Meuble, but this piece of favor nearly cost him his life during the Terror.

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Boy in a Child’s Chair (1736)

Jean II Restout (French, 1692 - 1768)
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Venus Ordering Arms From Vulcan For Aeneas (1717)

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Hector Taking Leave Of Andromache (1727)

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Portrait of a Carthusian Monk (c. 1715)

Jean II Restout (French, 1692 - 1768)
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Seated Carthusian Holding an Open Book (1711)

Jean II Restout (French, 1692 - 1768)
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Hector Taking Leave Of Andromache (1727)

Jean II Restout (French, 1692 - 1768)
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L’abbé Tournus (1672-1733) en prière. (1725)

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Portrait de l’abbé Tournus (1672-1733). (1725)

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Funeral of François Duplessis de Mornay

Jean II Restout (French, 1692 - 1768)
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Head of a Bearded Man (ca. 1750)

Jean II Restout (French, 1692 - 1768)
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Seated Male Nude (ca. 1740)

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