SUBLEYRAS, PIERRE (1699-1749)

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SUBLEYRAS, PIERRE (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

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Simon the Pharisee " (Louvre, engraved by Subleyras himself), a large

work

WORK

, which made his reputation and procured his admission into the

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

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

GREAT

paintingsthe "

Marriage

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

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

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

SISTER

to the wife of Tremolliere.

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