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Pierre Subleyras (
November 25 1699 -
May 28,
1749) was a
French painter, active during the late-
Baroque and early-
Neoclassic period, mainly in
Italy
Subleyras was born in
Saint Gilles du Gard, France. He left France in
1728, having carried off the French Academy's grand prix, which carried scholarship for study in
Rome. In Rome, he painted for the Elector of
Saxony, Frederick Christian, a "Christ's Visit to the House of Simon the Pharisee", later engraved by Subleyras himself), this work procured his admission into the famed Roman artists guild,
Accademia di San Luca.
Cardinal
Valenti Gonzaga next obtained for him the order for
Saint Basil & Emperor Valens (also known as the
Mass of St. Basil, which was executed in
mosaic for St Peter's. Another masterpiece is his painting of
St. Camillo De Lellis coming to the rescue of the diseased at the hospital of the Holy Spirit
He was a remarkably incisive portraitist, as evident from the portrait of Pope
Benedict XIV or of the obese Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga . The pope himself commanded two great paintings, the "Marriage of St Catherine" and the "Ecstasy of St Camilla", which he placed in his own private apartments.
Subleyras shows greater individuality in his curious genre pictures, which he produced in considerable number (Louvre). In his illustrations of
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. His wife, the celebrated miniature painter,
Maria Felice Tibaldi, was sister to the wife of
Tremollière.
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