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(3) (Jean-)Pierre Rivalz [Chevalier Rivalz]
(b Toulouse, 14 Sept 1720; d Toulouse, 26 July 1785). Painter and museum curator, son of (2) Antoine Rivalz. He was trained in his father’s studio; in 1735 he left Toulouse for a long period of residence in Rome. His portrait of Pope Benedict XIV (1740) earned him in 1744 the titles of Count Palatine and Knight of the Order of the Golden Spur. On his return to Toulouse he was involved in the foundation of the Société des Beaux-Arts in 1746 and its transformation into the Académie Royale in 1750. He held the office of Peintre de la Ville from 1756 to 1778. In 1770 he published a descriptive catalogue of the municipal art collection, of which he was both curator and restorer. His rather feeble classicizing religious and history paintings can be found in the parish church at Grenade, Haute-Garonne, in the former cathedral of St Benoît, Castres, and elsewhere.
Part of the Rivalz family
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