Jacques Restout
Jacques Restout (c. 1650 – c. 1701) was a French painter of the Restout dynasty (the son of Marc Restout) and a Premonstratensian canon regular.
Jacques Restout

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- Born
- 1650 · Caen.
- Died
- 1701
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · translator
- Languages
- French
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Jacques Restout (c. 1650 – c. 1701) was a French painter of the Restout dynasty (the son of Marc Restout) and a Premonstratensian canon regular.
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Jacques Restout was born in Caen, he was a student of Le Tellier and became prior of the abbaye de Moncets near Reims.
• La Réforme de la Peinture, Caen, J. Briard, 1681 • Traité de l’harmonie des sons • Translation of Pausanias, surviving in manuscript form • Translation of a Treatise on the Painting on the Ancients by Franciscus Junius le Jeune, surviving in manuscript form
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