Woman in a Plumed Hat riding a Horse astride, with other Riders, in a Landscape
Francesco Giuseppe Casanova (London 1727 - Vienna 1803)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1765
Materials
Pen and bistre on paper
Measurements
609 x 492 mm
Place of origin
Paris
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 267144
Summary
Pen and bistre drawing on paper, Woman in a Plumed Hat riding a Horse astride, with other Riders, in a Landscape by Francesco Casanova (London 1732/3 - Brühl 1803). Francesco Casanova was an Italian painter active in Venice, Paris, Dresden and Vienna. His brothers were the painter Giovanni Casanova and the adventurer, writer and notorious libertine Giacomo Casanova. The present drawing, which is a finished rather than preparatory work, may also relate to a painting by Casanova of 'Un Espagnol à cheval' exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1765 (no. 96).
Provenance
Pierre-Jacques-Onésyme Bergeret de Grancourt (1715 - 1785) ?his posthumous inventory, taken at his hôtel in Paris 14 Ma y- 23 June 1785, amongst framed items in the gallery, no. 97,valued with its pendant at 18 livres ;?his sale, 24 April ff.1786 (Lot 189, with its pendant); Sir Charles Prescott, 6th Bt (1877-1955), by whom bequeathed to Brinsley Ford and by descent to Augustine Ford. Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Augustine Ford and allocated to the National Trust for Osterley, 2023.
Makers and roles
Francesco Giuseppe Casanova (London 1727 - Vienna 1803), artist
References
Ford 1998 Brinsley Ford, John Ingamells, Francis Russell, John Christian, Nicholas Penny, Jennifer Montagu, Howard Coutts, Timothy Wilson & Dudley Dodd, The Ford Collection – II, Walpole Society, Vol. 60, 1998, pp. 91-376, RBF162 Garnett 2015: Oliver Garnett, At Home with Art Treasures from the Ford Collection at Basildon Park, National Trust, 2015, p. 20