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 on the Painting on the Ancients by Franciscus Junius le Jeune, surviving in manuscript form