PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
by her at Venice, Cliioggia, and Padua, and in
the Galleries of Turin, Florence, Copenhagen, £ind
St. Petersburg.
Eosalba's youngest sister, Giotanna Cabbiera, painted miniatures, assisted her sister in the back- grounds and draperies of her drawings, and died in 1737. , REG.
CAERIERE, A2JT0ISE Ftlceaxd, a French litho- graphic artist and pupil of Ingres, was bom at St. Afrique (AvejTon) in 1804. He executed a series of portraits of generals of the First Empire, and died at Agen in 1856.
CAEKOGIS, Lons. See CABsioyiELLE.
CARRUCCI, Jacopo, (or Cabucci.) called Jacopo da Postobmo (or, more correctly, Pcxtormo), was bom at Pontormo, in the Florentine state, in 1494. His parents dj-irig before he was thirteen years of age, he was taken to Florence by a relation, who, perceiving his inclination for art, placed him in the school of Leonardo da Vinci, under whose tuition he remained only till 1512, but who, nevertheless, influenced his style of painting; he afterwards became successively the scholar of Piero di Cosimo and of Mariotto Albertinelli. Whilst he was a dis- ciple of Albertinelli, he painted a picture of the 'An- nunciation,' which excited the greatest admiration, and being shown to Raphael, was considered by that great painter as an uncommon effort of genius for a juvenile performance. When about eighteen years of age he became a pupil of Andrea del Sarto ; and some of his early productions having received the most marked commendation from Buonarroti, the illiberal disposition of his instructor conceived an unworthy jealousy of his powers, and he is said to have dismissed him from his academy. This ungenerous treatment only served as a stimulus to his exerrions ; and it was not long before he met with considerable occupation. One of his first productions, on leaving Andrea del Sarto, was a picture of the ' Visitation of the Virgin to St. Elizabeth,' for the convent of the Annunziata, which disputed the preference with many of the works of Del Sarto. He was not less successful in his ' Holy Family with St. John,' painted for the church of San llichele, at Florence ; and his picture of 'St. Augustine giving the Benediction,' with a beautiful choir of angels, in the church of San Clemente. It is surpirising that, with the posses- sion of such powers, he should have degraded his talents by stooping to a servile imitation of the style of Albrecht DUrer, from whose prints the compositions in the series of pictures which he painted for the cloister of the Carthusians at ilorence are undisgiiisedly copied. His fresco work at Pozzio a Caiano is perhaps the most original and appropriate in Italj', and a proof of his ability to do reaily excellent work. His last works were the frescoes he painted in the chapel of San Lorenzo, representing the ' Deluge ' and the 'Last Judgment,' which, from his indecision and want of energy, occupied him eleven years. Great expectations had been formed of this important undertaking; but when the results were exposed to public view, they were found to be totally unworthy of his reputation ; and it is perhaps fortunate for his fame that they have since been obliterated. He did not long survive this mortifying failure, and died at Florence in 1557. As a portrait-painter Carrucci is worthy of much praise. The following are some of his best works :
Berlin. Galhry. Portrait of Andrea del Sarto. Florence. Cffizi. Madonna and Saints. Florence. VJizt. Venus and Cupid (from a design by JlichelangeJo). ^ „ Adam and Eve driven from Paradise. „ Martyrdom of St. Maurice. „ „ Birth of St. John. ., „ Portrait of Cosmo I. de' Medici. „ ,ica<?««iy. The Disciples at Emmaus. 1525. nnunziata ji^donna with Saints. Convent, „ 5. Feliciia. Descent from the Cross. Fitti Pal. Martyrdom of Forty Saints. „ „ Portrait of Ippolito de' Medici. London. Nat. Gal. Joseph in Egypt. Panshanger. Three pictures. Paris. Louvre. Holy Family. ,, ,, Portrait of an Engraver of Gems. Pozzio a Caiano. Decorative Fresco, Pontormo. St. John and St. Michael. Vienna. Gallery. Portrait of a Youth. Volterra. Cathedral. Descent from the Cross.
CABS, Jean Fran-(;-ois, was a French engraver, bom at Lyons in 1670. His father, Fbax^ois Cars, was an engraver of no great repute, to whom we owe a portrait of Joseph Tobias Franc, drawn in 1681. Jean Fran9oi3 worked at Lyons for some years, but eventually repaired to Paris, where he died in 1739. He had a brother, Fra-n-qois Cars, like- wise an engraver, who died in Paris in 1763, aged eighty-three. The works of Jean Francois Cars are not considered equal to those of his more famous son. His plates are somerimes marked J. F. Cars, but more frequently, J. F. Cars, fils.
We have by him the following portraits :
Nicolas, Superior of the Order of Capuchins at Lyons ; engraved at Lyons, 1694. Francois Blouet de Camilly. Cardinal de Pohgnac ; afttr Bu/aud. Archbishop NeufviUe de VUleroi ; after Grandon of Lyons. Bishop Dominic St. Clair. Louis Anguste, Prince de Dombes. Louis, Vicomte d'Aubusson. Prince Henri La Tour d'Auvergne. 1699. Archbishop Charles La Berchere. 1702. Cardinal Archbishop Le Camus. 1703. Pierre de Seve. 1706. Archbishop de Gram- mont, 1706. Louis XIV.; engraved at Lyons, sold at Paris, marked J. P. C.
CARS, Laurent, was a French designer and en- graver, born at Lyons in 1699. He was the son of Jean Fran9ois Cars, who took him when quite yoimg to Paris, where it was not long before he dis- tinguished himself. In 1733 he was received as an Academician upon his portraits of Michel An- guier and S^bastien Bourdon. Cars, who was the master of Beauvarlet, may be considered as one of the best French engravers of the 18th century, in the kind of subjects he selected. He died in Paris in 1771. His best plates are those engraved after Lemoyne, particularly that of ' Hercules and Omphale,' and the series of illustrations after Boucher's designs to the Comedies of Moliere, and after Oudry to the Fables of La Fontaine. His work is extensive ; the following are his principal plates : portraits.
Louis XV., an allegorical portrait; after Lemoyne. Louis XV., an allegorical portrait; after Boucher. Stanislaus, King of Poland ; after Van Loo. Michel Anguier, sculptor; after Revel. Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan ; after Rigaud. Marie Leszczinska, Queen of France ; after Van Loo. Fran9ois Boucher, painter; Jean Baptiste Charrin, painter; Madame Chardin; after Cochin, fh. Mile. Gamargo, dancing ; after Lancret. Mile. Clairon, in the part: of Medea.
SUBJECTS APTEB VARIOUS MASTERS.
The Adoration of the Shepherds; The Flight into Egypt; after Van Loo. Bathsheba at the Bath; Siisaimah and the Elders; after Be Troy. Adam and Eve in Paradise ; Hercules and Omphale ; Per-
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