Le Retour du Parlement
Jean Bernard Restout
ca. 1774
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 11/16 × 11 13/16 in. (22 × 30 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2016
Accession Number
2016.35
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenWomenAngels
About the Artist
Jean Bernard Restout · 1732–1797
**Jean-Bernard Restout** (22 February 1732 – 18 July 1797) was a French painter, draughtsman, and engraver born and died in Paris. He belonged to a prominent dynasty of artists as the son of Jean Restout II, a leading religious painter and member of the Académie de Rouen. Restout studied under his father before entering the competitive world of the Académie royale. He placed second in the Prix de...