Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Giuseppe Cades (1750-1799) - Rome - II

Giuseppe Cades
Armida gazes on sleeping Rinaldo
1785
drawing (colored chalks)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Giuseppe Cades
Achilles playing the Lyre to Patroclus in their Tent, surprised by Ulysses and Nestor
ca. 1782
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Giuseppe Cades
Tullia about to ride over the Body of her Father in her Chariot
ca. 1770-75
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

"Born in Rome at the midpoint of the eighteenth century to a French father and an Italian mother, Giuseppe Cades was a child prodigy.  A virtuoso draughtsman who at the age of 12 had won a minor prize at the Roman art academy (Accademia di San Luca), he had claimed a major prize from the same institution by age 16.  In the latter year, 1786, he was expelled from the studio of his master, the painter Domenico Corvi, apparently for excessive independence.  For some years thereafter, Cades made his reputation as a producer of polished, saleable drawings "in the manner of" older masters – not forgeries, but openly recognized imitations of sixteenth- or seventeenth-century artists intended for collectors of hard-to-find Renaissance or baroque masterpieces on paper.  By the 1770s, after his brilliant if erratic beginnings, Cades had become an established history painter with important commissions from churches and religious orders as well as from princely Roman families.  . . .  Cades's mature drawing style surpassed those of most of his immediate contemporaries in fluency, imagination, and vigor.  His work combines a neoclassical linearity and clarity with a neo-Mannerist tension and distortion, overlaid by a strong influence of the extravagant and fantastic manner characteristic of the circle of northern artists working around Henry Fuseli in Rome in the 1770s."

– from curator's notes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Giuseppe Cades
Modello for The Martyrdom of the Blessed Signoretto Alliata
ca. 1794-96
oil on canvas
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Giuseppe Cades
Allegory of Painting 
(Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the arms of King Francis I)
ca. 1780-99
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giuseppe Cades
Alexander the Great in the workshop of Apelles
1792
tempera with wax on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Giuseppe Cades
Alexander the Great refuses water
1792
tempera with wax on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Giuseppe Cades
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha
before 1799
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Giuseppe Cades
Birth of the Virgin
ca. 1784
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago
 
Giuseppe Cades
Virgin and Child
before 1799
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giuseppe Cades
Raising of Lazarus
ca. 1770
drawing
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Giuseppe Cades
Blessed Francis Venimbeni
celebrating Mass for Souls in Purgatory

before 1799
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giuseppe Cades
Martyred Deacon Saint seated in Niche
before 1799
drawing
Philadelphia Museum of Art

attributed to Giuseppe Cades
Adoration of the Shepherds
before 1799
watercolor
British Museum