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Pedro Perete, ( 16108 April 1639) was a seventeenth-century Baroque engraver and painter in Madrid. He was the son, and pupil, of engraver Pieter Perret. Perete Hispanicized the family name from the Dutch "Perret". Many of his works have been attributed to or confused with those by his father.Gallego, page 165
His earliest known works date from 1628, the allegory of the portraits of Philip I, Charles V, and Philip II drawn by , and the cover and front page of Alfonso Carranza's, Disputatio de vera naturalis et legitimi partus designatione (Discussion on the True Designation of Natural and Legitimate Offspring), with the portrait of the author and allegorical verses by Juan de Jáuregui. His best-known work, which he signed as an engraver, are the illustrations of Origen y dignidad de la caça (Origin and Dignity of Hunting) by Juan Mateos, printed in Madrid in 1634, with the portrait of the author on the cover. Based on that engraving, art historian Carl Justi identified Mateos as the model of an unfinished portrait of a gentleman cut below the waist painted by Velázquez, Don Juan Mateos.Lopez, 2014 Other works include an equestrian portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares and an interior illustration representing a "cloth of wild boar", executed by means of a drawing by Francisco Collantes; prints dedicated to religious life included in the work of Juan de Palma, "Vida de la sereníssima infanta sor Margarita de la Cruz, religiosa descalza de Sta. Clara" (Life of the most serene Infanta Sister Margarita de la Cruz, barefoot nun of Sta. Clara), printed in Madrid, 1636, in the Royal Printing Office, with a front cover print representing the nun, accompanied by allegories of Poverty and Prayer, and a portrait of Philip IV, inspired by one of Velázquez's portraits of the monarch.Ceán Bermúdez, 1800, pp. 87–93
In his later years he reverse-engraved the portrait of Count-Duke of Olivares originally made by RubensRubens - Portrait of El Conde - Duque de Olivares 64.11.24-1680.jpg and engraved by Paulus Pontius, engraved eighteen busts of the heroes published in the Ilustración del renombre de Grande by Juan Antonio de Tapia y Robles, printed in Madrid in 1638, and engraved a portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares made by .
Of his work as a painter, only two canvases are known to exist. The first is a portrayal of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus ( ) and the Raising of Lazarus (), the first signed by P. Peret, in the sotacoro or "area below the choir" of the in Herrín de Campos.
He died in Madrid on 8 April 1639, on , and was buried in the parish of St Sebastian's Church in Madrid.Barrio Moya, 1998 His successor as the king's engraver was his pupil, .Barrio Moya, 1982, page 107
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