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Jacques Restout (c. 1650 – c. 1701) was a French painter of the
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 (the son of
Marc Restout
Marc Restout (14 February 1616, in Caen – 3 April 1684, in Caen) was a French painter. The son of Marguerin Restout, he belonged to the famous Restout dynasty of painters. He was a prolific painter and won a major reputation in Flanders, Hollan ...
) and a
Premonstratensian
The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré (), also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines and, in Britain and Ireland, as the White Canons (from the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church ...
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 ...
. Born in
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,[Le Tellier Le Tellier or Letellier is a surname, and may refer to:
* Camille le Tellier de Louvois (1675–1718), French cleric
* Charles-Maurice Le Tellier (1642–1710), Archbishop of Reims
*Francis Letellier (born 1964), French journalist
* Franç ...]
and became prior of the
abbaye de Moncets near
Reims
Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast of Paris on the Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne.
Founded by ...
.
Works
* ''La Réforme de la Peinture'', Caen, J. Briard, 1681
* ''Traité de l’harmonie des sons''
*Translation of
Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to:
*Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium''
*Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
*Pausanias of Sicily, physician of th ...
, surviving in manuscript form
*Translation of a ''Treatise on the Painting on the Ancients'' by
Franciscus Junius le Jeune, surviving in manuscript form
References
*
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 ...
, ''Manuel du bibliographe normand'', Rouen, Le Brument, 1860
*
Philippe de Chennevières, ''Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de quelques peintres provinciaux de l'ancienne France'', Paris, Dumoulin, 1847–1862
1650 births
1701 deaths
Artists from Caen
Premonstratensians
French Baroque painters
French Christian monks
17th-century French people
17th-century Christian monks
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