early life and artistic training pierre rousseau, a french artist, was born in nantes in 1751 and died in 1829. he was a prominent figure in the neoclassicism movement in france, which emerged in the 1740s and became dominant in france between about 1760 to 1830. artistic style and influences rousseau's work was characterized by sobriety, straight lines, and forms, such as the pediment and colonnade, based on ancient greek and roman mo…