Pierre Brébiette

Brebiette was born in Mantes-sur-Seine[1] and lived and worked in Italy, much of the time in Rome, from 1617 to circa 1625.

[2] 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.

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 Greco-Roman mythology for his topics.

[7] 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).