Pierre Brébiette (1598 ? - 1642) was a French painter and etcher. Brebiette was born in Mantes-sur-Seine and lived and worked in Italy, much of the time in Rome, from 1617 to circa 1625. He and his wife, who died in 1637, had seven children together. Many of his etchings and some of his drawings have been preserved, but so far only one of his signed paintings has been positively identified and widely accepted as his work. That work, an oil on canvas entitled ''The Rape of Proserpina by Pluto'', is now in the Picot collection within the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Châlons-en-Champagne. Brebiette's paintings were popular enough in the mid-17th century to inspire at least ten known engravings marked as having been designed based upon his paintings. While some of the themes of Brebiette's works are biblical, based upon the remaining engravings of his paintings by others and etchings by his own hand, he seems to have mainly chosen classical

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mythology for his topics. Paola Bassani Pacht, who published an exhibition catalogue on Pierre Brébiette together with Sylvain Kerspern for the Musée des Beaux Arts d'Orleans in 2001, has attributed a large ''Neptune Calmant la Tempête'' as being Brébiette's. This oil on canvas, size 111.7 x 148 cm, was formerly at the Galerie Alexis Bordes in Paris, and is now in a private Paris collection.''Paola Bassani Pacht,''Pierre Brebiette, ''Neptune calmant la Tempête'' exhibition catalogue Galerie Alexis Bordes novembre 2014. The painting was discovered by Gui Rochat as French 18th century in Christie's South Kensington April 13, 2011, lot 178. An unsigned ''Crucifixion'' at the église

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Châlons-en-Champagne Châlons-en-Champagne () is a city in the Grand Est region of France. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Marne (department), Marne, despite being only a quarter the size of the city of Reims. Formerly called Châlons ...

is also attributed to Brébiette (classified as a ''Monument historique'' in 1907).

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1598 births 1642 deaths 17th-century French painters French male painters {{france-painter-stub