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PIERRE SUBLEYRAS (1699-1749)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1062 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE See also:SUBLEYRAS (1699-1749)  , See also:French painter, was See also:born at Uses (See also:Gard) in 1699 . He See also:left See also:France for See also:Italy in 1728, having carried off the See also:grand prix . He there painted for the Canons of See also:Asti " See also:Christ's Visit to the See also:House of See also:Simon the Pharisee " (Louvre, engraved by See also:Subleyras himself), a large See also:work, which made his reputation and procured his See also:admission into the See also:Academy of St See also:Luke . See also:Cardinal Valenti See also:Gonzaga next obtained for him the See also:order for " See also:Saint See also:Basil and the See also:Emperor See also:Valens " (small study in Louvre), which was executed in See also:mosaic for St See also:Peter's . See also:Benedict XIV. and all the princes of See also:Rome sat to him, and the See also:pope himself commanded two See also:great paintings—the " See also:Marriage of St See also:Catherine " and the " See also: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 See also:Paramount and paravail are derived from the Latin ad montem and ad vallem, signifying the highest and lowest, respectively . See also:Fontaine and See also:Boccaccio his true relation to the See also:modern era comes out; and his drawings from nature are often admirable (see one of a See also:man draped in a heavy cloak in the See also:British Museum) . Exhausted by overwork, Subleyras tried a See also:change to See also:Naples, but returned to Rome at the end of a few months to See also:die (May 28, 1749) . His wife, the celebrated See also:miniature painter, Maria Felice Tibaldi, was See also:sister to the wife of Tremolliere .

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