View from inside the Temple of Diana at Baia
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1780
Materials
Graphite, on beige laid paper, laid down on its old mount, outlined with pen and black ink
Measurements
230 x 327 mm
Place of origin
Pozzuoli (Italy)
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849399
Summary
Graphite on beige laid paper, View from inside the Temple of Diana at Baia by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), 1780. 16. & 17. Vues en dehors et en dedans du temple de Diane à Baïa.
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
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Top right - 16 Verso: Black chalk -55
Makers and roles
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827), artist
References
Voyages en Italie de Louis-François Cassas, 1756-1827 (ed. Annie Gilet) exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, 21 November 2015 - 22 February 2016, cat 73, p 186