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CORNARO COENARO FAMILY, Titian, Almvick Castle, England ; canvas, H. 6 ft. 8 in. x 8 ft. 5 in. An Altar, with the Holy Sacrament displayed, at top of a flight of marble steps to right ; around it grouped nine members of the Cornaro family. Painted about 1560; purchased by tenth earl of Northumberland at Sir Anthony Van Dyck's sale in 165G. Small copy at Hampton Court. C. & C., Titian, ii. 303 ; Waagen, Treasures, i. 393. CORNARO, GIORGIO, portrait, Titian, Castle Howard, England; canvas, half-length, life-size ; signed. Cornaro stands at a win- dow, with a falcon in his gloved left hand. Painted in 1522. Titian never produced a finer picture (C. & C.). Engraved by Skel- ton in 1811. C. & C., Titian, ii. 17. CORNARO, LUIGI, portrait, Titian (?), Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 9 in. Figure to knees, dressed in black, sitting in an arm-chair. Fine portrait, but by Tintoretto. Engraved by Trasmundi. Gal. du Pal. Pitti, i. PI. 110 ; C. & C., Ti- tian, ii. 441. CORNEILLE DBS GOBELINS. See Corneille, Michel, the elder. CORNEILLE, JEAN BAPTISTE, the younger, born in Paris in 104G, died there, April 12, 1695. French school ; history painter, sou and pupil of Michel C., of Or- leans ; won in 1664 the 2d prize, and in 1668 ' the 1st prize in the Academy, of which he became a member in 1675. After living several years in Rome he became professor | in the Paris Academy in 1692. Works : Hercules punishing Busiris (1675), Louvre ; Deliverance of St. Peter from Prison (painted for Notre Dame, 1679). Engraved after his own designs. Villot, Cat. Louvre. CORNEILLE, MICHEL, born at Orleans ! in 1603, died in Paris in 1664. French school ; history painter, pupil of Simon Vouet, in whose style he executed works for churches ; was in 1648 one of the twelve founders of the Academy, and in 1656 its rector. His best work, SS. Paul and Barna- bas at Lystra (engraved by Poilly), painted for the Cathedral of Notre Dame. He left several etchings after Raphael and the Car- racci. Villot, Cat. Louvre. CORNEILLE, MICHEL, the elder, born in Paris in 1642, died there at the Gobelins, Aug. 16, 1708. French school ; history painter, son and pupil of Michel C., of Or- leans ; won the prize at the Academy and went to Rome, where he studied especially the Carracci. On his return, in 1663, he be- came a member of the Academy, of which he became adjunct professor in 1673, and professor in 1690. He was employed by the King at Versailles, Meudon, and Fon- tainebleau, decorated several churches in Paris, and painted in fresco the chapel of St. Gregory in the Invalides. Sometimes called Corneille des Gobelins, because dur- ing his later years he had apartments at the manufactory. Many of his works have been engraved, and he himself etched and en- kA ^ M Co _ graved many | ^ Plate, Works: i p o s e in m Egypt, vre ; Baptism of Constantine, Bordeaux Museum. Villot, Cat. Louvre. CORNELIS VAN HAARLEM. See Cor- neliszen. CORNELISZ, JACOB, born at Oostsanen about 1475-1480 (?), died at Amsterdam about 1555-1560 (?). Dutch school ; called also Jacob van Amsterdam, and Jan Walter van Assen ; history, portrait, and landscape painter ; earliest picture known dated 1 506, and latest 1530. No particulars of his life. Among his pupils were his son Dirk (died 1567), a good portrait painter, and Jan Schoreel. Works : Madonna and SS. Anna, Joseph, and Joachim, Prince Biickeburg's Gallery ; Ahrensburg near Hameln ; Saul and the Witch of Endor ; Salome (1524), National Museum, Amsterdam ; Madonna and Angels, with SS. Sebastian, Magdalen, Donor and Douatrix, also male portrait, Antwerp Museum ; Incidents in Life of a Saint, Triptych with Madonna, Angels, and Saints, Berlin Museum ; Repose in Egypt,