Repères biographiques

  • 1596
    Baptism in Lyon of Jacques Stella, son of François Stella, a painter of Flemish origin and Claudine de Masso.
  • Around 1619-1622
    stay in Florence
  • 1623
    Jacques Stella is mentioned in Rome
  • 1624
    Jacques Stella is a member of the de Saint-Luke Academy in Rome
  • 1627
    Simon Vouet returns to France from Rome
  • 1633
    Jacques Stella is briefly imprisoned for a crime of a sexual nature.
  • 1634
    Departure from Rome, following Maréchal de Créquy via Florence, Venice and other Northern Italian cities.
  • 1635
    Stella's stay in Lyon.
  • 1636
    The painter and his brother, François, installed in Paris.
  • 1640
    Nicolas Poussin is called to Paris to paint the Great Gallery in the Louvre.
  • 1642
    Nicolas Poussin returns to Rome definitively. Death of Richelieu.
  • 1643
    Death of Louis XIII
  • 1644
    Stella receives the Order of Saint Michael, an extremely prestigious distinction.
  • 1647
    Death of his brother, the painter François Stella.
  • 1657 Death of Jacques Stella