ROUSSEAU, Jean-Siméon

Jean-Siméon Rousseau, called Rousseau de la Rottière, French painter and interior decorator. He was the son of Jules-Antoine Rousseau, and continued the work of his father. In 1783 he decorated the Petits Appartements of Marie-Antoinette at Versailles, and in 1787 a games-room and a boudoir with a 'cabinetGLOSSARYA small, private room where works of art, valuables and curiosities were kept and contemplated at leisure; over time the term was used for the collections themselves. Renaissance cabinets played an important role in the development of museums and art galleries. turc' at Fontainebleau for Marie-Antoinette. These rooms represent the apogée of the French 'style grotesque', and some of the motifs employed in them formed a transition to Pompeian decoration.