Jacques de Rousseaux

Jacques de Rousseaux , also Jacques de Rousseau (* around 1600 in Tourcoing , † May 5, 1638 in Leiden ), was a Dutch painter of French origin.

Jacques de Rousseaux is a little-known painter from the Rembrandt area. In the older literature he is often referred to as Rembrandt's apprentice, but modern research rejects this because he is a few years older than him. The most possible option is to work as a freelance painter in the Rembrandt workshop. But even this assumption is only considered hypothetical and is not supported by anything. On the other hand, there is a great stylistic closeness to the early works of Jan Lievens , so that it is probably more likely that he oriented Rousseaux more to this.

Besides a few exceptions, he seems to have mainly painted tronies .

Selected Works

• The Hague, Bredius Museum
  • Old man with a beard.
• Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal
  • Man with beret and necklace around 1635
  • Old woman with a beaded cap around 1635
• Rotterdam, Boymans van Beuningen Museum
  • Man with beret and necklace 1635
• Utrecht, Museum Catharijneconvent
  • Saint Thomas Aquinas 1635
• Whereabouts unknown
  • Man in a turban around 1628 (auctioned on November 22, 1994 at Butterfield & Butterfield in Los Angeles)
  • Portrait of a man with a feathered beret around 1630-1640 (auctioned on December 5, 1995 at Phillips in London)
  • Four men and women making music (auctioned on January 30, 1997 at Sotheby's in New York)
  • Old woman counting money (auctioned at Sotheby's in London on April 20, 1994)
  • Old man reading in an armchair (auctioned on April 23, 1998 at Sotheby's in London)
  • Old man reading (auctioned on April 25, 2001 at Christie's in London)

literature

• Roelof van Straten, Rembrandt's Path to Art 1606 - 1632, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-496-01343-5