Michel Serre (1658âÂÂ1733) was a Catalan-born French painter.
Michel Serre was born on 10 January 1658 in Tarragona, Spain. His father was Jacques Serre and his mother, Marie Barbos.
As a painter, he specialized in baroque painting, religious paintings and the Great Plague of Marseille. Many of his paintings can be found in Roman Catholic churches in Provence.
In Marseille, three of his paintings are displayed in the ÃÂglise Saint-Ferréol les Augustins: Sainte Marguerite, La Vierge àl'enfant apparaissant àSaint Pierre et Saint Paul. Another one is displayed in the ÃÂglise des Chartreux: Madeleine enlevée par les anges. Three are displayed in the ÃÂglise Saint-Matthieu de Château-Gombert: Le Christ roi, la Vierge et Saint-Joseph ou Le purgatoire, L'agonie de la Madeleine and Franciscains devant la Vierge ou apothéose de l'ordre de saint François. One painting, La vierge en prière dans lâÂÂatelier de Nazareth, is displayed in the Abbey of St. Victor, Marseille and two are displayed in the ÃÂglise Saint-Cannat: La vierge àlâÂÂenfant et le purgatoire and La purification de la Vierge. Another one is displayed in the ÃÂglise des Grands-Carmes: Cycle de la vie de la Vierge, while the ÃÂglise Saint Roch in Mazargues is home to Apothéose de saint Roch. Moreover, the ÃÂglise de la Pomme displays Annonciation, saint Jean-Baptiste et saint ÃÂtienne while the ÃÂglise Saint-Sébastien in Allauch has Mort de Saint-Joseph and La fuite en ÃÂgypte.
In Aix-en-Provence, his painting entitled Apothéose de Saint-Augustin is displayed in the ÃÂglise Saint-Jean-de-Malte while two other paintings, Le repas chez Simon le pharisien and Ex-voto de la peste can be seen in the ÃÂglise de la Madeleine.
In Le Beausset, Var, the Chapelle Notre-Dame de Beauvoir is home to Le và Âu de Mgr de Belsunce, representing Henri François Xavier de Belsunce de Castelmoron (1671âÂÂ1755). In Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, four of his paintings are displayed inside the Basilica of Sainte Marie Madeleine: L'enfant Jésus, Sainte-Anne, la Vierge et lâÂÂenfant jésus, Saint-Joseph, La Vierge àl'Enfant et le purgatoire and Saint-Thomas dâÂÂAquin foudroyant l'hérésie.
In La Ciotat, two of his paintings, Vierge de grâces and Vierge de grâces et purgatoire, are displayed in the ÃÂglise Notre-Dame. Moreover, in Draguignan, his painting Vierge donnant le scapulaire àSimon Stock can be seen inside the ÃÂglise Saint-Michel. In Versailles, the ÃÂglise Saint-Symphorien has one of his paintings, Les vendeurs chassés du temple, on display.
Some of his paintings are also found in museums. In the Villa Gaby Deslys in Marseille, formerly the private residence of Gaby Deslys, one can see his painting entitled La résurrection de Lazare. Also in Marseille, the Musée Grobet-Labadié displays Notre-Dame du bon voyage. Additionally, several of his paintings are displayed in the Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille: LâÂÂéducation de la Vierge, Présentation de la Vierge au temple, La visitation, Présentation de Jésus au temple, Jésus au temple parmi les docteurs, Saint-Benoît ressuscite un jeune moine mort, Cycle de la vie de Saint-François, Le martyre de Saint Pierre Vérone, Le miracle de Saint Hyacinthe, La vierge àl'enfant, Saint-François de Sales, and Sainte Jeanne de Chantal. In Aix-en-Provence, the Musée Granet displays one of his paintings: La vierge àlâÂÂenfant, moine bénédictin, Sainte félicité et Perpétue.
Louis XIV (1638âÂÂ1715) appointed him as official painter of French galleys.
On 1 May 1685 he married Florie Régimonde, daughter of Jean Régimonde et de Jeanne Montaignon, in the ÃÂglise Notre-Dame-des-Accoules in Marseille.
He died on 10 October 1733 in Marseille. He was buried in the ÃÂglise Saint-Ferréol les Augustins in Marseille.