The Waterfall at Terni from the bottom by the Nera River
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1779
Materials
Graphite on paper, on three sheets
Measurements
382 x 567 mm
Place of origin
Terni
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849407
Summary
Black chalk and graphite on three pieces of paper, The Waterfall at Terni from the Bottom by the Nera River by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), circa 1779. 25. Vue de la cascade de Terni, prise tout à fait du bas sur le bord de la rivière. Page has been extended at both sides. Mounted and outlined in black ink.
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
Verso: Black chalk -133
Makers and roles
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827), artist
References
McMordie 1976 Colin McMordie, Louis-François Cassas: "The Formation of a neo-classical Landscapist", Apollo, March 1976, pp. 228-230, fig. 3 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 39, p. 123