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- Painter Jean - Bernard Restout, 1732
- Painter Jean Bardin, 1732
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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 which 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 favor nearly cost him his life during the Reign of Terror when Roland and his friends were implicated in the aftermath of the theft from the Garde - Meuble. Suspected, he was imprisoned and only released on the fall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor.
Jean Bardin, a French historical painter, born at Montbard in 1732, was a pupil of Lagrénée, the elder; and afterwards studied at Rome. He became a popular artist in France, and was admitted into the Academy in 1779. He was made director of the art school at Orléans in 1788. His subjects are partly historical, partly poetical, and sometimes religious. He was the instructor, in the elements of art, of David and Regnault. He died at Orléans in 1809.
