Jean Restout the Elder

Jean Restout the Elder (15 November 1666, in Caen – 20 October 1702, in Rouen) was a French painter.[1] He was part of the Restout 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.

The Magnanimity of Scipio (1728)

He married Marie Madeleine Jouvenet (c. 1655 – before 1729), sister of the painter Jean Jouvenet, and his style resembles that of his brother-in-law so closely that many of Restout's paintings are misattributed to Jouvenet.

References
  1. "Restout, Jean, the Elder". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00151317. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
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References
  • Édouard Frère, 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
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