PIERRE

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• PIERRE SUBLEYRAS (1699-1749)

SUBLEYRAS (1699-1749)  , French painter, was born at Uses (Gard) in 1699 . He left France for Italy in 1728, having carried off the grand prix . He there painted for the Canons of Asti " Christ's Visit to the House of Simon the Pharisee " (Louvre, engraved by Subleyras himself), a large work, which made his reputation and procured his admission into the Academy of St Luke . Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga next obtained for him the order for " Saint Basil and the Emperor Valens " (small study in Louvre), which was executed in mosaic for St Peter's . Benedict XIV. and all the princes of Rome sat to him, and the pope himself commanded two great paintings—the " Marriage of St Catherine " and the " Ecstasy of St Camilla "—which he placed in his private apartments . Subleyras shows greater individuality in his curious genre pictures, which he produced in considerable number (Louvre) . In his illustrations of La 1 Paramount and paravail are derived from the Latin ad montem and ad vallem, signifying the highest and lowest, respectively . Fontaine and Boccaccio his true relation to the modern era comes out; and his drawings from nature are often admirable (see one of a man draped in a heavy cloak in the British Museum) . Exhausted by overwork, Subleyras tried a change to Naples, but returned to Rome at the end of a few months to die (May 28, 1749) . His wife, the celebrated miniature painter, Maria Felice Tibaldi, was sister to the wife of Tremolliere .