# Jacques Stella > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jacques_Stella > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jacques_Stella.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Stella > Source revision: 1353147397 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) French painter Jacques Stella Self-portrait (musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) Born 1596 (1596) Lyon Died 29 April 1657(1657-04-29) (aged 60–61) Paris Known for Painting Movement Classicism **Jacques Stella** (1596 – 29 April 1657) was a French painter, a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of [Parisian Atticism](/source/Parisian_Atticism). ## Life Vulcan forging the arrows of Love Stella was born in Lyon. His father was [François Stella](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Stella), a painter and merchant of Flemish origin, but he died too soon to train Jacques in painting.[1] Jacques's siblings were François the Younger and Madeleine (a sculptor and the mother of artists).[1] He was the uncle of [Antoinette](/source/Antoinette_Bouzonnet-Stella), [Claudine](/source/Claudine_Bouzonnet-Stella), [Françoise](/source/Fran%C3%A7oise_Bouzonnet_Stella) and [Antoine Stella](/source/Antoine_Stella).[1] Jacques Stella trained in [Lyon](/source/Lyon) before spending the period from 1616 to 1621 in the court of [Cosimo II de Medici](/source/Cosimo_II_de_Medici) in [Florence](/source/Florence), working alongside [Jacques Callot](/source/Jacques_Callot) - Florentine art is a strong influence on all Stella's work. On Cosimo's death in 1621 Stella moved to Rome, where he spent the next 10 years and won a reputation thanks to his paintings, small engravings and painted work on stones ([onyx](/source/Onyx), [lapis-lazuli](/source/Lapis-lazuli) or simply slate). Particularly working for [pope Urban VIII](/source/Pope_Urban_VIII), Stella was influenced in Rome by classicism and more specifically by the art of [Nicolas Poussin](/source/Nicolas_Poussin), with whom he became an intimate friend. *The Rape of the Sabines*, [Princeton University Art Museum](/source/Princeton_University_Art_Museum) Returning to Lyon in 1634 before moving to Paris a year later, Stella was presented to [Louis XIII](/source/Louis_XIII) by [cardinal Richelieu](/source/Cardinal_Richelieu). The king made him peintre du roi (meaning he lived from then on in the [Louvre](/source/Louvre)) and granted him a pension of 1000 livres. He returned many times to the theme of the childhood of Christ - five different versions by him of "Jesus discovered by his parents in the temple" exist. He took on many commissions and also decorated the chapelle Saint-Louis at the [château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Saint-Germain-en-Laye) and the choir of the [église Saint-François-Xavier](/source/Saint-Fran%C3%A7ois_Xavier_des_Missions_%C3%A9trang%C3%A8res) (1641–42) alongside Poussin and [Simon Vouet](/source/Simon_Vouet). From 1644 he took part in the decoration of the [Palais-Cardinal](/source/Palais-Royal#Palais-Cardinal). Towards the end of his life he devoted himself more and more to drawing. As well as his painting and drawing he was a major art collector throughout his life, building a collection of paintings by Poussin and [Raphael](/source/Raphael) and drawings by [Michelangelo](/source/Michelangelo) and [Leonardo da Vinci](/source/Leonardo_da_Vinci). He died in Paris. ## Reception Massacre of the Innocents, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen Audacious and varied, his work moved easily between the realism of direct observation, the antique spirit and a higher religious inspiration. After his death his paintings and engravings were often sold as works by Poussin. His work was often engraved, allowing his art to reach a wide audience, especially after his death under the impetus of his niece and heiress, the artist Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (died 1697). A retrospective of his work occurred at the [Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon](/source/Mus%C3%A9e_des_Beaux-Arts_de_Lyon) from 17 November 2006 to 19 February 2007, before touring to the [Musée des Augustins](/source/Mus%C3%A9e_des_Augustins) at [Toulouse](/source/Toulouse) from 17 March to 18 June 2007. ## Selected works - *[Solomon](/source/Solomon) sacrificing to idols* (c 1650), oil on canvas, 98 cm (39 in) x 142 cm (56 in), [musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon](/source/Mus%C3%A9e_des_Beaux-Arts_de_Lyon). - *[Massacre of the Innocents](/source/Massacre_of_the_Innocents)*, [grisaille](/source/Grisaille) (attributed to him), [Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen](/source/Mus%C3%A9e_des_Beaux-Arts_de_Rouen). ## Bibliography - (in French) Sylvain Laveissière & Gilles Chomer, *Jacques Stella (1596–1657)*, exhibition catalogue, Lyon, musée des Beaux-Arts, Toulouse, musée des Augustins, 2006–2007, with contributions by: Mickaël Szanto, Isabelle Dubois, Fabienne Albert-Bertin, Anne-Laure Collomb, Laurent Laz and Isabelle de Conihout, 2007, Somogy, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-2-7572-0050-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-7572-0050-6). - (in French) *Jacques Stella*, Dossier de l'art n° 136 ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-RKD_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-RKD_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-RKD_1-2) [Jacques Stella](https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/75013) in the [RKD](/source/RKD) - [Jacques Stella](http://www.artnet.com/artists/jacques-stella/past-auction-results) on [Artnet](/source/Artnet) ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Jacques Stella](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jacques_Stella). - [Jacques Stella on Artcyclopedia](http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/stella_jacques_de.html) Authority control databases International VIAF GND National United States France BnF data Artists ULAN RKD Artists KulturNav Prado National Gallery of Canada South Australia People Netherlands Deutsche Biographie --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jacques Stella](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Stella) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Stella?action=history)). 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