Pierre Subleyras

Training under Antoine Rivalz is recorded. Joseph-Siffred Duplessis is recorded as having studied under Pierre Subleyras. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Places of work recorded in the authority are Toulouse, Paris and Rome. Works named in the authority record are The annunciation. Work by Pierre Subleyras is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Nationalmuseum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Galleries Scotland. Distinctions recorded are first Prix de Rome for painting.

• Name — Pierre Subleyras • Born — 25 November 1699 • Birthplace — Saint-Gilles, Languedoc • Died — 28 May 1749 • Place of death — Rome • Style — Classicism • Awards — Prix de Rome

Subleyras was born in Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, France. He left France in 1728, having carried off the French Academy's grand prix, which provided 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 Silvio 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. Another portrait was of the cleric and artist Giovanni Felice Ramelli, which Ramelli then replicated in miniature. Subleyras shows greater individuality in his curious genre pictures, which he produced in considerable number (Louvre). In his illustrations of La 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 Isabella, the wife of Trémolières.

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