# Jacques Restout

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'''Jacques Restout''' (c. 1650 – c. 1701) was a French painter of the [Restout](/source/Restout) dynasty (the son of [Marc Restout](/source/Marc_Restout)) and a [Premonstratensian](/source/Premonstratensian) [canon regular](/source/canon_regular). Born in [Caen](/source/Caen), he was a student of [Le Tellier](/source/Pierre_Le_Tellier) and became prior of the [abbaye de Moncets](/source/abbaye_de_Moncets) near [Reims](/source/Reims).

==Works==
* ''La Réforme de la Peinture'', Caen, J. Briard, 1681
* ''Traité de l’harmonie des sons''
*Translation of [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), surviving in manuscript form
*Translation of a ''Treatise on the Painting on the Ancients'' by [Franciscus Junius le Jeune](/source/Franciscus_Junius_le_Jeune), surviving in manuscript form

==References==
* [Édouard Frère](/source/%C3%89douard_Fr%C3%A8re), ''Manuel du bibliographe normand'', Rouen, Le Brument, 1860
* [Philippe de Chennevières](/source/Charles-Philippe_de_Chennevi%C3%A8res-Pointel), ''Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de quelques peintres provinciaux de l'ancienne France'', Paris, Dumoulin, 1847–1862

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