Jacques Restout [SEP] religious order
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. Born in Caen, he was a student of Le Tellier and became prior of the abbaye de Moncets near Reims.
Works.
- "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
-gold "boiseries" of the grand salon, with their overdoors of the Four Continents painted by four painters who were providing tapestry cartoons for the looms at Aubusson: Jacques Dumont le Romain, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Charles Restout and Carle Van Loo, are now installed in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Books and manuscripts from his extensive library, dispersed at auction in 1754 and 1756, are recognizable from the arms surrounded by the collar of the Order of Saint-Louis and the motto "Bellicae vitutis praemium" stamped