Paolo Girgenti (1767/69 – 1819)[1] was an Italian painter of the late 18th and early 19th-centuries, active in Naples.
[2] He was born in Agrigento, Sicily, known in Sicilian language as Girgenti.
He studied, along with a Giuseppe Camerata from Sciacca, under Fedele Fischetti.
[3] He became the president of the Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts at the beginning of the 19th century.
[4] He painted a Sleeping Cupid, of which a copy is found in the Museo Pepoli in Trapani.