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to paint for a livelihood. Studied under Antonio Lazzari, Diamantini, Balestra, and others, and at the age of twenty-four became famous for her miniatures and crayon portraits. In 1703 she became a member of the Accademia Clementina, Bologna, and in 1705 of San Luca, Rome. In company with her brother-in-law, Antonio Pellegrini, she visited Paris in 1720, painted the royal family and many other distinguished persons, and was received into the Academy. All the courts of Europe vied in doing her honour and in giving her commissions. She excelled in painting pretty women, and one of her most lovely works is a portrait of herself in crayons in the Dresden Gallery, where are also many other of her pictures. Her heads are especially good, but her arms, hands, and busts are often weak in drawing. Many of her pictures are in the Dresden Museum. She became blind from overwork in 1746.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne; Sensier, Journal de Rosalba Carriera (Paris, 1865); Seguier, 176; Wessely, 29.

CARRIÈRE, EUGÈNE, born at Gournay-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Oise); contemporary. Genre painter; pupil of Cabanel. Medal, 3d class, 1885. Works: Young Mother (1879); The Nymph Echo (1880); Kiss of Innocence (1882); Two Friends, Marguerite (1884); Sick Infant, The Favourite (1885).

CARSTENS, ASMUS JACOB, born at St. Jürgen, near Schleswig, May 10, 1754, died in Rome, May 26, 1798. German school; history painter. Impressed by the pictures of Juriaen Ovens, pupil of Rembrandt, in the Cathedral of Schleswig, determined to become an artist, and tried in vain to study under Tischbein at Cassel. After five years' apprenticeship to a wine-dealer at Eckernförde, during which he drew and painted in his leisure hours, went to Copenhagen (1776) and took a partial course at the Academy, studied in the Museum, and supported himself by painting portraits. In 1783 went to Mantua, but was obliged to return to Lübcke for want of funds. For five years lived by portrait painting, then went to Berlin (1787), and in 1790 became professor at the Academy of Arts. Having a pension from the King, he went to Rome in 1790, exhibited his works there in 1795, and won great applause. Had many distinguished pupils, such as Koch, Schick, Cornelius, etc., and took the position of founder of the new German school. Works: Death of Æschylus; Æolus and Ulysses; Fall of the Rebel Angels; Banquet of Plato; Battle of Rossbach; Homer; Return of the Megapenthes; Socrates saving the life of Alcibiades; Ganymede and the Eagle; Battle of Centaurs and Lapiths; Œdipus in Colonus; Œdipus Tyrannus.—Allgem. d. Biogr., iv. 29; F. von Alten, Der Maler A. J. C. (Schleswig, 1865); Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Brockhaus, iv. 21; Fernow-Riegel, Carsten's Leben und Werke (Hanover, 1867); Grimm, Zehn Essays, 218; Müller-Schuchardt, Carstens' Werke (Leipsic, 1869); Pecht, iii. 31; Sach, Carstens' Jugend und Lehrjahre (Halle, 1881); Schöne, Beiträge z. Lebensgeschichte (Leipsic, 1866); Woltmann, Aus vier Jahrhdt., 169; Zahn's Jahrbücher, vi. 99, 208; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 54; Zimmermann, Studien und Kritiken, ii. 273.

CARTERIUS, painter, about the middle of 3d century B.C. His portrait of the philosopher Porphyrius has preserved his name from oblivion.—Porphyr., Vita Plotini, i.

CARTERON, EUGÈNE, born in Paris; contemporary. History, genre, and portrait painter; pupil of B. Glaize and Léon Glaize. Medal, 3d class, 1878. Works: Lazarus (1877); Prodigal Son (1878); St. Jerome (1879); Creation of Eve (1881); Bone-Setter (1882); Journeys of St. Sulpice (1848); The Two Processions (1885).