RESTOUT, Jean II
(b. 1692, Rouen, d. 1768, Paris)

Pentecost

1732
Oil on canvas, 465 x 778 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Jean Restout came of a family of painters and did many religious and mythological pictures, and worked for a time for Frederick the Great.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 7 minutes):
Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, heiliger Geist, choral BWV 652