Jean Restout the Younger
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| File:Portrait of Jean Restout the Younger, by Tadeusz Kuntze after La Tour (1756).jpg
Portrait of Restout from 1756 by Polish painter Tadeusz Kuntze
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| Native name | Jean Restout le Jeune |
| Born | 26 March 1692 Rouen, Kingdom of France |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Paris, Kingdom of France |
| Education | Jean Restout the Elder, Jean Jouvenet |
| Spouse(s) | Marie-Anne Halli |
| Director of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture | |
| In office 1760–1763 |
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| Monarch | Louis XV |
| Preceded by | Louis de Silvestre |
| Succeeded by | Jacques Dumont le Romain |
Jean Restout the Younger (26 March 1692 – 1 January 1768) was a French painter. Although little remembered today, Restout was well-respected by his contemporaries for his religious compositions. His late baroque classicism rendered his altarpieces, such as the Death of Saint Scholastica an "isolated achievement" that ran counter to his rococo contemporaries.[1]
Biography
Restout was born in the city of Rouen in Normandy on 26 March 1692.[2] He was a son and pupil of Jean Restout the Elder, a church painter from Caen.[3] His mother, Marie Madeleine Jouvenet (c. 1655 – before 1729), was also an artist and the sister of the famed painter Jean Jouvenet.[4]
By 1707, Restout had entered Jouvenet's studio in Paris where he would study religious painting.[5] He won the Prix de Rome with Venus Asking Vulcan for Arms for Aeneas, but chose not to go to Rome and was instead made an associate at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1717.[6] 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.
Gallery
- Works by '''Jean Restout the Younger'''
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Pentecost (1732)
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Lille Pdba restout pelerins.jpg
The Pilgrims of Emmaus (1735), Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
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Boy in a Child's Chair (Jean Restout d.y.) - Nationalmuseum - 17885FXD.jpg
Boy in a Child's Chair or Portrait de Jean-Bernard Restout (1736)
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Restout - Le Triomphe de Mardochée.JPG
The Triumph of Mordecai (1755)
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La Présentation du Christ au temple - Restout.JPG
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (1759), Saint-Roch, Paris
References
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External links
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