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SUBLEYRAS, PIERRE (1699-1749)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1062 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SUBLEYRAS, See also:PIERRE (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 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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