Rocks and Buildings at Naples
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1780
Materials
Black chalk and graphite on paper
Measurements
218 x 314 mm
Place of origin
Naples
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849392
Summary
Black chalk and graphite on paper, Rocks and Buildings in Naples by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), 1780. Written in artist's hand: a Naples en montant. 9. Roches et fabriques à Naples.
Provenance
One of 200 drawings (Catalogue des principaux dessins et les mieux soignis, faits et finis sur les lieuxs et d’après nature, par L. F. Cassas, appartenant a Lord Bristol) either obtained from the artist by Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (1730-1803) through Louis-Antoine Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, duc de Rohan-Chabot (1733 - 1807) or more likely, sold to Frederick William Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol, MP, FRS, FSA (1769-1859) by the widow of Alexandre-Louis Auguste, duc de Rohan-Chabot (1761 – 1816), son of the artist’s patron, Anne-Louise-Madeleine-Élénore de Montmorency, duchesse de Rohan-Chabot (1771-1828) in around 1822; and thence by decent until acquired by the National Trust under the auspices of the National Land Fund (later National Heritage Memorial Fund) in 1956
Credit line
Ickworth, The Bristol Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1956)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: ARD - stamp Verso: Black chalk - 58
Makers and roles
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827), artist