Giuseppe Canale

Engraving of Paris and Oenone by Giuseppe Canale, based on the painting by Jacob van Loo, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, 1780

Giuseppe Canale (1725–1802) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born in Rome, the son of Antonio Canale. He was instructed in engraving by Jacob Frey, and also frequented the school of the Cavalière Marco Benefial. In 1751 he was invited to Dresden to assist in engraving plates for the pictures in their Gallery, and was appointed engraver to the Court. He completed the following prints:

• Portrait of after Benefial
• Portrait of Maria Antonia, Electress Dowager of Saxony after a self-portrait drawing
• Portrait of Archbishop Bonaventura Barberini
• Portrait of Maria Josephina, Queen of Poland
• Portrait of Prince Xavier of Saxony
• Sepulchral Monument of
• Philosopher; after Jusepe Ribera
• The Glory after Domenichino
• Sibyl after Angelica Kauffman
• Paris & Oenone after Van Loo
• Adam and Eve driven from Paradise after Albani
• Christ & St. John after
• Christ appearing to St. Thomas after Mattia Preti finished by Jacque Firmin Beauvarlet
• Turkish Woman and Spring after Dietrich.

References[]

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 224.CS1 maint: location (link)

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