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Artist: Jean-Bernard Restout (French, 1732 - 1797).
Title: L'Abbe D'Olivet
Medium: Antique engraving on laid paper after the original by master engraver Jean-Charles Levasseur (French, 1734-1816).
Signature: Signed in the plate.
Year: 1771
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 6 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches.
Framed dimensions: Approximately 17 x 20 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Additional notes:
This is not a modern print. This impression is more than 245 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp.
Extra Information:
Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet, Abbot of Olivet (1 April 1682, Salins-les-Bains – 8 October 1768, Paris) was a French abbot, writer, grammarian and translator. He was elected the fourth occupant of Académie française seat 31.
Artist Biography
Bust Jean-Bernard Restout was a French painter. Restout was born and died in Paris. A son of Jean II Restout and like him a member of the Académie de Rouen, he won the Prix de Rome in 1758 and was aggregated to the Académie royale on his return from Italy in 1765, then received into it in 1769. However, he refused to conform to its rules led to a quarrel. He frequently exhibited at the Salon de Paris from 1767 to 1791. On the French Revolution, he was president of the Commune des Arts which campaigned, with its founder David, for the suppression of the Académie. Made guardian of the Garde-Meuble royal by Roland during the Revolution, this favour nearly cost him his life during the Reign of Terror when Roland and his friends were implicated in the after of the theft from the Garde-Meuble. Suspected, he was imprisoned and only released after the 9 Thermidor coup d'etat (27 July 1794) that deposed Robespierre.
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