Jean Restout the Younger

Restout was born in the city of Rouen in Normandy on 26 March 1692.{{Cite web |last=Conisbee |first=Philip |date=2003 |title=Restout, Jean, II |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-90000370845 |access-date=1 August 2023 |website=Grove Art Online |publisher=Oxford University Press}} He was a son and pupil of Jean Restout the Elder, a church painter from Caen.{{Cite book |title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |title-link= |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 |volume= |location= |pages= |chapter=Restout, Jean, the Elder |doi= 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00151317|isbn= 978-0-19-977378-7|access-date=1 August 2023 |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00151317}} His mother, Marie Madeleine Jouvenet ({{Circa|1655}} – before 1729), was also an artist and a sister of the famed painter Jean Jouvenet.{{Cite book |title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |title-link= |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 |volume= |location= |pages= |chapter=Jouvenet, Marie Madeleine |doi= 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00096118|isbn= 978-0-19-977378-7|access-date=1 August 2023 |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00096118}}

Jean Restout the Elder died suddenly in 1702 and thereafter two of his brothers, the artists Jacques and Eustache, cared for the ten-year-old Restout. In 1707, following their introduction to one another by Eustache, Restout entered Jouvenet's studio in Paris.{{Cite book |last=Pinette |first=Matthieu |url=https://archive.org/details/fromsunkingtoroy0000muse/mode/2up |title=From the Sun King to the Royal Twilight : Painting in Eighteenth-Century France from the Musée de Picardie, Amiens |publisher=American Federation of Arts |year=2000 |isbn=1885444133 |location=New York |pages=76–77 |access-date=1 August 2023 |url-access=registration}} He rose to a position of some importance while there, even assisting his uncle in the completion of his last commissions.{{Cite journal |last=Goodman |first=John |date=1995 |title=Jansenism, Parlementaire Politics, and Dissidence in the Art World of Eighteenth-Century Paris: The Case of the Restout Family |journal=Oxford Art Journal |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=74–95 |doi=10.1093/oxartj/18.1.74 }} Furthermore, Jouvenet gave Restout the majority of his many drawings, a number of which were figure studies.{{Cite journal |last=Schnapper |first=Antoine |date=Summer 1967 |title='Les Compositions' of Jean Jouvenet |journal=Master Drawings |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=135–143, 199–208 }}

On 29 May 1717, Restout was admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture as an agréé or associate following his submission of the painting Venus Ordering Arms from Vulcan for Aeneas.{{Cite book |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1041699s/f9.item.r=Galerie%20fran%C3%A7oise,%20ou%20Portraits%20des%20hommes%20et%20des%20femmes%20c%C3%A9l%C3%A8bres%20qui%20ont%20paru%20en%20France |title=Galerie françoise, ou Portraits des hommes et des femmes célèbres qui ont paru en France |publisher=Jean-Thomas Hérissant (a.k.a. Herissant le fils), printer-bookseller |year=1771 |editor-last=Restout |editor-first=Jean-Bernard |volume=II |location=Paris |language=French |chapter=Restout |access-date=2 August 2023 |editor-last2=Cochin |editor-first2=Charles-Nicolas |editor-link2=Charles-Nicolas Cochin |chapter-url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1041699s/f209.item.r=Galerie%20fran%C3%A7oise,%20ou%20Portraits%20des%20hommes%20et%20des%20femmes%20c%C3%A9l%C3%A8bres%20qui%20ont%20paru%20en%20France}}{{Cite book |title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |title-link= |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 |volume= |location= |pages= |chapter=Restout, Jean, the Younger |doi= 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00151318|isbn= 978-0-19-977378-7|access-date=1 August 2023 |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00151318}} He evidently prepared an additional, complementary work for the Academy entitled Venus Presenting Arms to Aeneas. Both paintings may have been composed in anticipation of that year's Prix de Rome competition, but apparently Restout only thought about entering the contest as he was not among the April finalists.{{Cite journal |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Pierre |last2=Schnapper |first2=Antoine |date=1982–1983 |title=Paintings by Restout on Mythological and Historical Themes: Acquisition by the National Gallery of Canada of Venus Presenting Arms to Aeneas |url=https://www.gallery.ca/bulletin/num6a/schnapper1.html |journal=Annual Bulletin of the National Gallery of Canada |volume=6 |pages=43–54 |issn=0711-2866}}{{Cite book |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k30464762/f9.item |title=Liste des pensionnaires de l'Académie de France à Rome de 1663 à 1907 |publisher=Firmin-Didot |year=1908 |editor-last=Guiffrey |editor-first=Jules |editor-link=Jules Guiffrey |location=Paris |pages=23 |language=French |editor-last2=Barthélemy |editor-first2=Joseph |editor-link2=Joseph Barthélemy}}

Restout's career as a religious painter began in earnest in 1730, when he received a dual commission from the Benedictine abbey at Bourgueil near Chinon.{{Cite book |last=Conisbee |first=Philip |url=https://archive.org/details/paintingineighte0000coni_w5y9/mode/2up |title=Painting in Eighteenth-Century France |publisher=Phaidon Press |year=1981 |isbn=0-7148-2147-0 |location=Oxford |pages=52–54 |access-date=4 August 2023 |url-access=registration}} Both paintings, the Ecstasy of St Benedict and the Death of St. Scholastica, center around monastic figures.{{Cite web |last=Join-Lambert |first=Sophie |date=2008 |title=L'Extase de saint Benoît |url=https://mba.tours.fr/TPL_CODE/TPL_COLLECTIONPIECE/98-18e.htm?PIECENUM=263&NOMARTISTE=RESTOUT+Jean |access-date=4 August 2023 |website=mba.tours.fr |language=French}}{{Cite web |last=Join-Lambert |first=Sophie |date=2008 |title=La Mort de sainte Scholastique |url=https://mba.tours.fr/TPL_CODE/TPL_COLLECTIONPIECE/98-18e.htm?COLLECTIONNUM=13&PIECENUM=262&NOMARTISTE=RESTOUT+Jean |access-date=4 August 2023 |website=mba.tours.fr |language=French}}

In 1729, Restout married Marie-Anne Hallé (1704–1784), daughter of Academy painter Claude-Guy Hallé.{{Cite book |last=Estournet |first=O. |url=https://archive.org/details/lafamilledeshall00esto/page/n5/mode/2up?q=Anne |title=La Famille des Hallé |publisher=Réunion des Sociétés des beaux-arts des départements |year=1905 |pages=47–50 |language=French}} In 1732, she gave birth to their only child, Jean-Bernard Restout. He, like his father, had a successful, though rather conventional, painting career: he won the Prix de Rome in 1758, was admitted to the Academy in 1769, and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon.{{Cite web |last=Turner |first=S. J. |date=2003 |title=Restout, Jean-Bernard |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-90000370846 |access-date=4 August 2023 |website=Grove Art Online |publisher=Oxford University Press}}

Restout died in the Louvre Palace on 1 January 1768. His late baroque classicism rendered his altarpieces, such as the Death of St. Scholastica an isolated achievement that ran counter to his rococo contemporaries.{{Cite book |last=Levey |first=Michael |url=https://archive.org/details/rococotorevoluti0000leve/mode/2up |title=Rococo to Revolution : Major Trends in Eighteenth-Century Painting |publisher=Thames and Hudson |year=1985 |page=36 |isbn=978-0-500-20050-6 |access-date=4 August 2023 |url-access=registration}}

• Saint Bruno in Prayer (1711) – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole.
• Portrait of Dom Louis Daudouin du Basset, a Carthusian monk of Gaillon (1716) – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
• Venus Ordering Arms from Vulcan for Aeneas (1717) – Los Angeles County Museum of Art.{{Cite web |last=Marandel |first=J. Patrice |date=2011 |title=Venus Ordering Arms from Vulcan for Aeneas |url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/220212 |access-date=2 August 2023 |website=collections.lacma.org |publisher=Los Angeles County Museum of Art}}
• Venus Presenting Arms to Aeneas (1717) – Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada.{{Cite web |title=Venus Presenting Arms to Aeneas |url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/venus-presenting-arms-to-aeneas |access-date=2 August 2023 |website=gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada}}
• Alpheus and Arethusa (1720) – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.
• Ecstasy of St Benedict (1730) – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours.
• Death of St Scholastica (1730) – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours.
• Alexander and his Doctor (1747) – Musée de Picardie, Amiens.{{Cite web |title=Jean Restout, "Alexandre malade recevant le breuvage du médecin Philippe" |url=https://www.amiens.fr/Vivre-a-Amiens/Culture-Patrimoine/Etablissements-culturels/Musee-de-Picardie/Collections/XVIII/Notices/Notice-Jean-Restout |access-date=3 August 2023 |website=amiens.fr |language=French}}
• Martyrdom of St. Andrew (1749) – Musée de Grenoble.
• Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne (1757) – Sanssouci, Potsdam.
• Orpheus and Eurydice (1763) – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes.

File:Saint Bruno in Prayer, by Jean Restout the Younger (1711).jpg|Saint Bruno in Prayer (1711)

File:Venus Ordering Arms from Vulcan for Aeneas LACMA M.2010.129 (1 of 2).jpg|Venus Ordering Arms from Vulcan for Aeneas (1717)

File:Alpheus and Arethusa, by Jean Restout the Younger (1720).jpg|Alpheus and Arethusa (1720)

File:Death of St. Scholastica, by Jean Restout the Younger (1730).jpg|Death of St Scholastica (1730)

File:Jean II Restout - Pentecôte.jpg|Pentecost (1732)

File:Boy in a Child's Chair (Jean Restout d.y.) - Nationalmuseum - 17885FXD.jpg|Boy in a Child's Chair or Portrait de Jean-Bernard Restout (1736)

File:Martyrdom of St. Andrew, by Jean Restout the Younger (1749).jpg|Martyrdom of St. Andrew (1749)

File:Le Triomphe de Bacchus et d’Ariane - Restout.jpg|Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne (1757)

File:Seated Carthusian Holding an Open Book MET DT8807.jpg|Seated Carthusian Holding an Open Book (1711)

File:Head of a Bearded Man MET DP808065.jpg|Head of a Bearded Man ({{Circa|1750}})

File:Funeral of François Duplessis de Mornay MET DP812089.jpg|Funeral of François Duplessis de Mornay

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• {{Cite periodical |last1=Réau |first1=Louis |last2=Messelet |first2=Jean |last3=Adhémar |first3=Jean |date=1938 |title=Carle Vanloo, Jean Restout: Les lithographies de paysages en France à l'époque romantique |magazine=Nouvelles archives de l'art français |language=French |publisher=Société de l'histoire de l'art français |volume=19}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Pierre |title=Jean Restout (1692–1768) : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Juin-Septembre 1970 |last2=Schnapper |first2=Antoine |publisher=Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |year=1970 |isbn= |location=Rouen |language=French |oclc=489634124 |author-link=Pierre Rosenberg}}
• {{Cite book |last=Gouzi |first=Christine |title=Jean Restout, 1692–1768 : Peintre d'histoire à Paris |publisher=Arthena |year=2000 |isbn=9782903239275 |location=Paris |language=French |oclc=46462444}}
• {{Cite book |last=Gouzi |first=Christine |title=Jean Restout et les miracles de Saint-Médard |publisher=Yvelinedition |year=2013 |isbn=9782846684491 |location=Montigny-le-Bretonneux |language=French |oclc=894848499}}

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