(b Nîmes, 1613; d ?Rome, after 1694). French painter. The son of a Protestant glass painter who had settled in Nîmes, Levieux went to Rome in 1640, meeting Nicolas Poussin there in 1642. In Rome he executed copies of works by Raphael intended as tapestry cartoons to be woven in France. He returned to Nîmes in 1644, moving to Montpellier five years later; there he worked on the decoration of the hôtel of the Baron de Vauvert and executed tapestry cartoons (untraced) on the theme of the Life of Moses. Around 1651 Levieux was in Avignon, where he painted a Holy Family (Villeneuve-les-Avignon, Notre-Dame) for the Carthusians, from whom numerous further commissions followed. In 1654 he painted the Purification of the Virgin for Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon, and in 1659 he joined the Confrérie des Pénitents Noirs in that city, for whom he painted the Beheading of St John the Baptist (Nîmes, Mus. B.-A.). As well as large paintings for churches and private houses in Avignon, Levieux painted still-lifes and portraits and supplied designs to local wood-carvers and sculptors. After his chief rivals Nicolas Mignard and Jean Daret left for Paris, Levieux was able to establish himself as the foremost painter in Provence, dividing his time between Avignon (e.g. the decoration of the chapel of the Pénitents Noirs in 1665) and Aix (e.g. St Bruno, 1665; St Jean).