View of Fontebranda and Church of San Domenico, below Siena
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1780
Materials
Graphite on paper
Measurements
223 x 308 mm
Place of origin
Siena
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849409
Summary
Graphite on paper, View of Fontebranda and Church of San Domenico, below Siena by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), 1780. 27. Vue de Fonti Branta et de l'Eglise......au dessous de Sienne. INscibed: Veduta della [ -----] La fonti Branta. Fontebranda is certainly the most impressive and rich source of water in Siena and was mentioned by Dante Alighieri in the Divine Comedy (Inferno XXX: 76-78).
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 à 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)
Makers and roles
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827), artist