Carlo Antonio Porporati

Carlo Antonio Porporati (

and painter.

Born in Volvera, near Turin,^[1] he came to Paris as young boy, and became a pupil of Chevillet, Beauvarlet and Johann Georg Wille. He engraved religious subjects and portraits with a burin in the black manner. The National Gallery of Florence has a portrait and genre scenes painted by him. On May 8, 1773, he was inducted into the Royal Academy of Artists in Paris, and for his reception piece he painted a Susannah at the Bath, a copy after Santerre. In the same year he was admitted to membership of the Turin Academy, and in 1797 appointed conservator of the Gallery.

In 1776, he engraved Adam and Eve before the corpse of Abel, original by

(personal collection).

In 1793, he is commissioned by the king, founded a school of engraving at Naples, where he had lived for four years, and would remain as a teacher. While he painted portraits, engraving was his forte.

List of works

1. Susannah at the Bath ; after Santerre.
2. Tancred and Clorinda ; after
   Carle van Loo
   .
3. Le Coucher ; after
   Carle van Loo
   .
4. Erminia asking shelter of a Shepherd ; after
   Carle van Loo
   .
5. Cupid in Meditation ; after Angelica Kauffman.
6. The Death of Abel; after Adriaen van der Werff.
7. Venus caressing Cupid ; after Pompeo Batoni.
8. Jupiter and Leda ; after
   Correggio
   .
9. The Madonna with the Rabbit ;after
   Correggio
   .
10. Leda and the Swan ;after
    Correggio
    .
11. Leda bathing ; after
    Correggio
    .
12. La Zingarella ; after
    Correggio
    .
13. The young Girl with a Dog ; after
    Greuze
    .
14. Portrait of Charles Emmanuel III.
15. Portrait of
    Queen Marie Antoinette
    .
16. Portrait of the
    Empress Marie Louise
    .
17. Abraham sending away Hagar ; after Phillip Van Dyke
18. Paris and Enone : after van der Werff. (mezzotint)
19. The Compassionate Priestess ; after
    Gibelin. (mezzotint
    )
20. Portrait of Marie-Antoinette in her last jail - 16 October 1793

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. pp. 309–310.