Saint Hymer in Solitude

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1735

After Jean Restout (French, 1692–1768)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: After Jean Restout
Title: Saint Hymer in Solitude
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1725–1745
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 59.4 × 75.1 cm (23 3/8 × 29 13/16 in.); Framed: 79.4 × 93.1 × 7.7 cm (31 1/4 × 36 5/8 × 3 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Old Masters Society
Reference Number: 1982.1378
IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.: https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/99424/manifest.json

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.).

Rochester, University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, La Grande Maniere: Historical and Religious Painting in France, 1700-1800, May 2-July 26, 1987, no. 45 as Restout; New Brunswick, NJ, immerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, September 6-November 8, 1987; Atlanta, High Miseum of Art, Georgia-Pacific Center, December 7, 1987-January 29, 1988.

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.

Gouzi P.R. 3

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