Jean Restout the Elder (15 November 1666, 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,Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...

) was a French painter. He was part 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 of painters, studying under his father Marguerin Restout. He is called "the Elder" to distinguish him from his son Jean Restout the Younger, an accomplished painter of religious images. He married Marie Madeleine Jouvenet ( – before 1729), sister of the painter

Jean Jouvenet Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet (1 May 1644 – 5 April 1717) was a French painter, especially of religious subjects. Biography He was born into an artistic family in Rouen. His first training in art was from his father, Laurent Jouvenet; a generation ea ...

, and his style resembles that of his brother-in-law so closely that many of Restout's paintings are misattributed to Jouvenet.

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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 ...

, ''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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Restout, Jean 1666 births 1702 deaths Artists from Caen 17th-century French painters French male painters