Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Mondaye) was a French architect, engraver, painter and
canon regular
Canons regular are priests who live in community under a rule ( and canon in greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by a ...
, belonging to the artistic
Restout The Restout family was a French dynasty of painters from Normandy, including the painters:
* Marguerin Restout and his sons:
** Marc Restout (1616–1684) and his sons:
*** Jacques Restout (1650–1701)
*** Eustache Restout (1655–1743), also an ...
dynasty. At his death he was sub-prior of abbaye Saint-Martin de Mondaye - he had produced the plans on which that monastery was rebuilt and painted several paintings for it (now in
Jean II Restout
Jean II Restout (26 March 1692 – 1 January 1768) 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.M ...
.
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Édouard Frère
Édouard Frère (27 September 1797, Rouen – 7 April 1874, Rouen) was a French bookseller, archivist, biographer, and historian specialized in the Normandy area.
Life
The son and grandson of booksellers, Frère's father, Jacques-Christophe oper ...