Carlo Antonio Porporati

Carlo Antonio Porporati (1741-1816) was an Italian engraver and painter. He was born at Volvera near Turin.

He went to Paris when he was young, and became a pupil of Chevillet and of Beauvarlet. In 1773 he was made a member of the Academy at Paris, and engraved for his reception plate "Susannah at the Bath", after Santerre. In the same year he was admitted to membership of the Turin Academy, and in [1797 appointed conservator of the gallery). In 1793, commissioned by the king, he founded at Naples a school of engraving, and spent in that city the four years previous to his last-mentioned appointment. He died in Turin. He painted some good portraits, but engraving was his forte.

List of Works

#"Susannah at the Bath" ; after Santerre.
#"Tancred and Clorinda" ; after Carle van Loo.
#"Le Coucher" ; after Carle van Loo.
#"Erminia asking shelter of a Shepherd" ; after Carle van Loo.
#"Cupid in Meditation" ; after Angelica Kauffmann.
#"The Death of Abel"; after A. van der Werff.
#"Venus caressing Cupid" ; after Pompeo Batoni.
#"Jupiter and Leda" ; after Coreggio.
#"The Madonna with the Rabbit" ;after Coreggio.
#"Leda and the Swan ;after Coreggio.
#"Leda bathing" ; after Coreggio.
#"La Zingarella" ; after Coreggio.
#"The young Girl with a Dog" ; after Greuze.
#"Portrait of Charles Emmanuel III".
#"Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette".
#"Portrait of the Empress Marie Louise".
#"Abraham sending away Hagar" ; after Phillip van Dyck
#"Paris and Enone" : after van der Werff. (mezzotint)
#"The Compassionate Priestess" ; after Gibelin] . (mezzotint)

References

*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume II L-Z)| editor = Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves| pages= pages 309-310| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1| authorlink=