View of the Mountains of Saint Michel looking towards Saint Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoy
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1780
Materials
Black chalk on paper
Measurements
202 x 309 mm
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849413
Summary
Black chalk on paper, View of the Mountains of Saint Michel looking towards Saint Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoy by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), 1780. 31. Vue des montagnes de St. Michel en regardant St. Jean de Maurienne. With written and numerical annotations [suggested colours], left: gris darduif, 2 & 11, centre bottom: gris and rock face on roght: terra A[....]; jaune. Vue des montagens en regt la gorge par en arrivant de St Jean de Maurienne.
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)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Black chalk-161 Recto: Top right: 90
Makers and roles
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)