Philippe ROUSSEAU is a French painter, born February 22, 1816 in Paris, and died December 5, 1887 in Acquigny. Philippe ROUSSEAU is the student of Antoine-Jean GROS and Jean-Victor BERTIN at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He began as a landscape painter, then painted still lifes and animal subjects. He exhibited at the Salon from 1834. He earned a third class medal in 1845, a second class medal in 1855, and a first class medal in 1848.