About Jacques Restout
Lived 1650 – 1701 (aged 50–51). Jacques Restout was a French painter and translator.
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 on the Painting on the Ancients by Franciscus Junius le Jeune, surviving in manuscript form
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Who was Jacques Restout?
French painter (1650-1701)
When was Jacques Restout born?
Jacques Restout was born in 1650 in Caen.
When did Jacques Restout die?
Jacques Restout died in 1701.
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Jacques Restout was a painter and translator.
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Jacques Restout was French.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Jacques Restout. https://biography.guide/jacques-restout/
MLA: "Jacques Restout." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/jacques-restout/.
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