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Description: | Jacques Rousseau was a French Huguenot artist who, at the height of his fame, was employed by Louis XIV to decorate the palaces of Marly and St-Germain-en-Laye. Following the revocation in 1685 of the Edict of Nantes, which had granted religious tolerance to non-Catholics, he fled France, ultimately settling in England where he was one of several French artists, along with Charles de la Fosse, commissioned by the Duke of Montagu to decorate his London house. De la Fosse probably painted Rousseau's portrait during the time the two men worked together at Montagu House, which stood on the present site of the British Museum. | Subjects: | portrait (Jacques Rousseau) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Fosse, Charles de la (French painter, 1636-1716) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8624... | Go to resource |
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