Jean-Pierre Rivalz
Jean-Pierre Rivalz was a French painter.
Rivalz was born at Labastide-d'Anjou, in the diocese of Saint-Papoul. A pupil of Ambroise Frédeau, 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. His pupil was the painter Raymond Lafage, who later taught his son Antoine. Rivalz died in Toulouse.
Works
- Carmelite chapel in Toulouse : wall and ceiling paintingFoundation of Ankara by the Tectosages – a mural ruined by humidity and saltpetre, his son Antoine was commissioned to repaint it in 1723Communion of the Virgin – painted for the church of the city's Carthusian monastery and now in the église Saint-Sernin de Toulouse.
- , Montpellier, musée Atger.
- Profiles, Paris, musée du Louvre.