Jean Restout
Medium
engraving with etching
Dimensions
plate: 26.5 x 18.5 cm (10 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.) sheet: 29 x 21.3 cm (11 7/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John O'Brien
Accession Number
1985.44.5
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the National Gallery of Art, where this elegant 18th-century print, *Jean Restout*, invites us into the world of French artistic circles. Created by engraver Jean Charles Levas after a composition by painter Jean Bernard Restout (2–1768), it dates to between 172 and 1750. Restout, a prominent history painter and member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, likely depicted his contemporary or relative Jean Restout in this work, capturing the refined portraiture style of the Rococo era with its graceful lines and subtle elegance. The medium—engraving combined with etchi...