Eustache Restout (12 November 1655, in

Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Mondaye) was a French architect, engraver, painter and

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, belonging to the artistic

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dynasty. At his death he was sub-prior of abbaye Saint-Martin de Mondaye - he had produced the plans on which that monastery was rebuilt and painted several paintings for it (now in

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). His students included his nephew

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References

* Édouard Frère, ''Manuel du bibliographe normand'', Rouen, Le Brument, 1860 * Philippe de Chennevières, ''Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de quelques peintres provinciaux de l'ancienne France'', Paris, Dumoulin, 1847–1862 {{DEFAULTSORT:Restout 1655 births 1743 deaths Clergy from Caen 17th-century French engravers 18th-century French engravers 17th-century French painters 18th-century French painters 17th-century French architects 18th-century French architects French male painters Premonstratensians Artists from Caen 18th-century French male artists