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Boy in a Child's Chair, the artist son Jean-Bernard Restout
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    Boy in a Child's Chair, the artist son Jean-Bernard Restout

    TitleBoy in a Child's Chair, the artist son Jean-Bernard Restout
  • Technique/ MaterialOil on canvas
  • DimensionsDimensions: (h x b) 60 x 50 cm
    Frame: (h x b x dj) 84 x 73 x 10 cm
  • DatingSigned 1736
  • Artist/Maker Artist: Jean Restout d.y., French, born 1692, dead 1768
  • Depicted PersonJean-Bernard Restout, French, born 1732, dead 1797
  • CategoryPaintings, Paintings
  • Inventory No.NM 882
  • AcquisitionTransferred 1866 from Kongl. Museum (1749 Tessin-Fredrik I)
  • ExhibitedNationalmuseum, Room 1603 18th century
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    Jean Restout studied under his uncle Jean Jouvenet. He was elected to France’s Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1720. This portrait of his four-year-old son Jean-Bernard is one of the few Restout painted, and has become one of his most popular works. It is admired for the artist’s honest and somewhat unsentimental depiction in which his son seems both happy and pensive.