PETER PAUL, one of the greatest painters and sculptors France ever produced, though but little noticed by their own writers, was born at Marseilles in 1623. In his youth he was the disciple of Roman, an able sculptor; and then went to Italy, where he studied painting and architecture. In painting he followed the manner of Peter de Cortona, that this painter desired to see him, and entered into a friendship with him. In 1657, a dangerous disorder obliged him to renounce the pencil, and devote himself to sculpture; and his reputation causing him to be invited to Paris, he enjoyed a pension of 1200 crowns, as sculptor and director of the works relating to vessels and galleys. PUL

galley. He died at Marseilles in 1695, and has left a number of admirable statues behind him both in France and Italy.