JEAN - BERNARD RESTOUT
Paris 1732 - Paris 1797
Jean-Bernard Restout, was the son of Jean Restout (1692-1768), one of the major religious painters of the first half of the 18th century. Jean-Bernard trained with both his father and his brother-in-law Noël Hallé (1711-1781), another important history painter. Although Restout started out with a promising academic career, he eventually rejected what he saw as the Academy's authoritarian stance toward the arts. With more research, and the recognition of works by Jean-Bernard such as this one, his body of work is becoming better understood.
