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Jacques des Rousseaux

French Baroque painter (c.1600-1638)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ1678138 ↗
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Jacques des Rousseaux (1600 – 1638), was a Baroque painter active in Leiden. He was born in Torcoing, which at the time was part of the Spanish Netherlands.

Biography

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Rembrandt in Leiden from 1630 onwards. He is known for genre works in the manner of Rembrandt.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jacques des Rousseaux” as french Baroque painter (c.1600-1638). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1600, 1638, 1630—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1600-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Jacques, Rousseaux and French can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as french Baroque painter (c.1600-1638). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1678138. VIAF identifies the subject as 95767166. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1600, 1638 and 1630.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jacques des Rousseaux” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.