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| Author's biography |
| Painter and draughtsman, the most famous member of a family of painters, with an impressively active and successful career. His father, Jean Restout I was also painter. By 1707 he was in Paris as the pupil of his famous uncle, Jean Jouvenet, the leading religious painter in the capital. On 29 May 1717 Jean Restout II was approved (agr殚) by the Acad閙ie Royale and he was received (re鐄) on 28 June 1720, the year in which he married Marie-Anne Hall?(b 1704), a daughter of the painter Claude-Guy Hall? Unlike most history painters of his time, Restout did not travel to Italy to study. He had a solid training with Jouvenet, and perhaps also with Nicolas de LargillierrA> and, once established in the 1720s, he had a studio of assistants and pupils. He occasionally attended the drawing school of the Acad閙ie, where from 1730 he was professor of drawing, in which capacity he wrote his Essai sur les principes de la peinturP>He specialized in serious historical subjects, especially sombre and large-scale religious scenes, which seem out of place in a period renowned for its rather more amorous Rococo art and fetes galantes, although they demonstrate the continuity of the tradition of monumental figure painting throughout the 18th century. His son Jean-Bernard Restout is best known for his portraits. |
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