Pierre Soubeyran

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Pierre Soubeyran (born November 6, 1706 in Geneva ; † April 12, 1775 ibid) was a Geneva- French engraver , engraver and collaborator of the Encyclopédie .

Live and act

Pierre Soubeyran was the son of the locksmith, serrurier Pierre Soubeyran sen., A Huguenot refugee from Sauve , Languedoc and his wife Pernette de Bourdeau. He received his first graphic training through Daniel Gardelle (1679–1753) from Geneva, the brother of the Swiss painter and engraver Robert Gardelle . Through his sponsors he was sent to Paris for further training in 1730. Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui (1694–1748) encouraged him to train as an etcher in Paris, where he then from 1742 to 1749 the Académie royale des sciencesbelonged to. At times he also received lessons from Georg Friedrich Schmidt in Paris.

In Paris he gained a solid reputation. Soubeyran was soon one of the most qualified engravers of his time. On May 14, 1748 he was appointed head of the public drawing school in Geneva, École publique de dessin de Genève, which opened in 1751.

He wrote an article for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .

Pierre Soubeyran is often confused with his cousin , Jean-Pierre Soubeyran (1708–1774), a miniature painter.

Works (selection)

The main prints are:

  • La Conversion de saint Bruno, after Lesueur
  • La Belle villageoise, by Boucher
  • Portrait de Pierre le Grand, after Caravage
  • Une jeune fille devant son miroir, from Natoire
  • Six Paysages de Lucas van Uden.
  • La plupart des planches du Traité des pierres antiques de Mariette, after Bouchardon
  • des vignettes pour la Galerie de Versailles, from Massé etc.

literature

  • Ferdinand Hoefer: Nouvelle Biographie générale. Volume 44, Firmin-Didot, Paris 1865, pp. 212-213.
  • Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des 17 volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie (suite et fin) In: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. 8, 1990, pp. 101-121, here p. 116 No. 124 ( digitized version ).
  • Danielle Buyssens: La carrière parisienne de Pierre Soubeyran, premier directeur de l'école publique de dessin de Genève. In Liber veritatis. 2007, pp. 181-189
  • Danielle Buyssens: La question de l'art à Genève. 2008

Web links

Wikisource: Pierre Soubeyran  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Consortium of European Research Libraries, (CERL)
  2. ↑ Danielle Buyssens, Lucien Boissonnas / PTO: Soubeyran, Pierre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Soubeyran, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Geneva-French engraver and encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1775
Place of death Geneva