Pierre Brébiette

Pierre Brébiette (1598 ? - 1642) was a French painter. Several of his drawings have been preserved, but so far only one of his signed paintings has been identified. 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.[1]

The Rape of Proserpina by Pluto

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,[2] has recently identified 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.[3] 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 Notre-Dame-en-Vaux in Châlons-en-Champagne is also attributed to Brébiette (classified as a Monument historique in 1907).

Notes
  1. Charles Picot, collectionneur, exhibition catalogue, musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Châlons en Champagne, 2008.
  2. Paola Bassani Pacht and Sylvain Kerspern,Pierre Brébiette (1598?-1642) Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orleans 22 octobre 2001-20 janvier 2002
  3. Paola Bassani Pacht,Pierre Brebiette, Neptune calmant la Tempête exhibition catalogue Galerie Alexis Bordes novembre 2014.


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