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 The following information was submitted in April of 2006 by Philippe Nusbaumer:
Jacques Linard was baptized on September 6, 1597 in the Saint-Rémy church of the town of Troyes (Champagne, south-east of Paris). His first traces of artistic activity date from the decade 1620. Married in 1626 to the daughter of a Parisian Master painter. He integrated the same year the community of the Parisians Master painters. In 1631 he is quoted as a painter and a manservant of the king. He dies in 1645. The catalogue of works drawn up by Philippe Nusbaumer indexes less than fifty paintings, mostly still lifes.
Source: Nusbaumer, Philippe Jacques Linard (1597- 1645) Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, 2006, Le Pecq-sur-Seine
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