About This Artwork

Jean Restout, after
French, 1692-1768

Saint Hymer in Solitude, c. 1735

Oil on canvas
23 3/8 x 29 13/16 in. (59.4 x 75.1 cm)
Old Masters Society Restricted Gift, 1982.1378

Gouzi P.R. 3

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Rochester, University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, "La Grande Maniere: Historical and Religious Painting in France, 1700-1800," (1987), no. 45 as Restout, traveled to New Brunswick and Atlanta.

Publication History

Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, "French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago," (Chicago, 1996), pp. 124-7 (ill.).

Christine Gouzi, "Jean Restout 1692-1768: Peintre d'histoire a Paris" (Arthena, Paris, c. 2000), pp. 233, 324-5, cat. no. P.R. 3 (ill.).

Ownership History

Possibly the church of Saint-Hymer, Calvados. Purchased at public auction by Galerie Cailleux, Paris [letter from Marianne Roland Michel dated February 25, 1983 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.