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RESTOUT, JEAN (1692–1768)

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RESTOUT, JEAN (1692–1768)

RESTOUT, See also:
JEAN
JEAN (1692–1768) , See also:

French painter, See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

ROUEN

Rouen on the 26th of See also:

March 1692, was the son of Jean Restout, the first of that name, and of See also:

MARIE

Marie M. See also:

JOUVENET, JEAN (1647-1717)

Jouvenet, See also:

SISTER

sister and See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of the well-known Jean Jouvenet. In 1717, the Royal See also:

Academy having elected him a member on his See also:

WORK

work for the See also:

GRAND

Grand Prix, he remained in See also:

Paris, instead of proceeding to See also:

Italy, exhibited at all the salons, and filled successively every See also:

POST

post of academical distinction. He died on the 1st of See also:

JANUARY

January 1768. His See also:

WORKS

works, chiefly See also:

ALTAR (Lat. altare, from alias, high; some ancient etymological guesses are recorded by St Isidore of Seville in Etymologiae xv. 4)

altar-pieces (Louvre Museum), ceilings and designs for See also:

GOBELIN

Gobelin tapestries, were engraved by See also:

Cochin, Drevet and others; his diploma picture may still be seen at St See also:

CLOUD (from the same root, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

Cloud. His son, JEAN See also:

BERNARD RESTOUT (1732–1797), won the Grand Prix in 1758, and on his return from Italy was received into the Academy; but his refusal to comply with rules led to a See also:

QUARREL

quarrel with that See also:

BODY

body. See also:

Roland appointed him keeper of the Garde Meuble, but this piece of favour nearly cost him his See also:

LIFE

life during the Terror. The St See also:

Bruno painted by him at See also:

Rome is in the Louvre.

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