Jean-Pierre Rivalz (c. 1625 – 17 May 1706) was a French painter. Rivalz was born at Labastide-d'Anjou, in the diocese of

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. A pupil of

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, in 1667 he was made an architect to the city of Toulouse. In 1666 he married Perette de Caillavel, by whom he had ten children, including the painter

Antoine Rivalz Self-portrait in 1721 Antoine Rivalz (1667 – 11 December 1735) was a French painter. Born in Toulouse, the son of Jean-Pierre Rivalz (who painted and designed the city's hôtel de ville), Antoine became the town's official painter, and was a ...

. His pupil was the painter

Raymond Lafage Raymond Lafage (1656, Lisle-sur-Tarn – 1684, near Toulouse) was a Baroque French artist, notable for his mythological prints and drawings. Biography According to the RKD he was a student of Jean-Pierre Rivalz, and in turn he taught that painte ...

, who later taught his son Antoine. Rivalz died in

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Works

* Carmelite chapel in Toulouse : wall and ceiling painting * ''Foundation of

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by the

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'' – a mural ruined by humidity and

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, his son Antoine was commissioned to repaint it in 1723 * ''Communion of the Virgin'' – painted for the church of the city's Carthusian monastery and now in the église Saint-Sernin de Toulouse.
Allegorical portrait

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, musée Atger. * Profiles, Paris, musée du Louvre.

Architecture

* ''Ancien couvent des religieux de Saint-Antoine-du-Salin'' 18,20 ''rue Pharaon'' in

References

External links

Bibliography

* Jean Penant, ''Antoine Rivalz'', catalogue of the exhibition ''Antoine Rivalz'', Toulouse,

musée des Augustins The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse () is a fine arts museum in Toulouse, France which conserves a collection of sculpture and paintings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The paintings are from throughout France, the sculptures rep ...

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