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| Giuseppe Cades Self-portrait 1786 oil on canvas Accademia di San Luca, Rome |
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| Giuseppe Cades Venus bewailing the dead Adonis 1780 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Giuseppe Cades Resurrection of Christ ca. 1785-90 drawing British Museum |
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| Giuseppe Cades Achilles and Briseis 1776 drawing Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Giuseppe Cades Bacchus and Ariadne on Naxos ca. 1785-90 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
"Giuseppe Cades was born in Rome in 1750, the son of a Frenchman, and was a pupil of Domenico Corvi. As early as 1766 he won a prize at the Accademia di San Luca, and enjoyed the patronage of Prince Chigi, whose villa in Arrici he later decorated with scenes from Tasso and with landscapes. 'Cades deserves his place in history primarily due to his talent for imitation, which, without the solidity of his character or his conduct, might all too easily have posed a danger to society. Shrewd connoisseurs would tell him that they would like a drawing in the manner of Michelangelo or Raphael, etc., and Cades would immediately produce what was required. If one then displayed his drawing next to an undoubted original by the imitated master and asked, for example, which is the original Michelangelo, the connoisseurs hesitated in their decision or took the imitation by Cades to be the original' (Luigi Lanzi). Because of his great technical ability, Cades for a long time vacillated between two mutually opposed tendencies. Only in the 1790s did he begin, following Jacques-Louis David, to develop his own firm style, the first indications of which aroused general attention, but he died early, in 1799."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Giuseppe Cades Portrait of a Young Woman 1788 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| attributed to Giuseppe Cades Design for Frieze with Two Women flanking an Urn ca. 1785-95 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Cades Winged Victory ca. 1778 drawing Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Giuseppe Cades Coat of Arms of the Rezzonico Family, supported by Winged Victories ca. 1767-78 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Giuseppe Cades Rape of Lucretia 1795 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Giuseppe Cades Dead Christ mourned by Mary Magdalen ca. 1778-87 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Cades Death of Ugolino and his Sons in Prison ca. 1780-90 drawing Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon |
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| Giuseppe Cades Designs for Vases before 1799 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giuseppe Cades Scene of Sacrifice before 1799 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |