Gardens of the Villa Belvedere or Aldobrandini in Frascati
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1779 - 1781
Materials
Graphite on beige laid paper
Measurements
246 x 393 mm
Place of origin
Frascati (Italy)
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849441
Summary
Graphite on beige laid paper, Gardens of the Villa Belvedere or Aldobrandini in Frascati by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), circa 1779. 61. Vue prise en descendant les jardins de la villa Belvedere ou Aldobrandini à Frascati. Mounted with ARD (Lugt 172) mountmaker's stamp. Encircled 22 on reverse. Inscribed at the top: 'il fait Bien de la crotte / pour aller chercher une / voiture / par L. F. Cassas' [it is necessary to make a mess before finding a way]. A view of the garden of the Villa Belevere at Frascati, signed and dated 1781 is at Musée des Beaux- Arts, Quimper.
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 descent 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
References
McMordie 1976 Colin McMordie, Louis-François Cassas: "The Formation of a neo-classical Landscapist", Apollo, March 1976, pp. 228-230, fig. 2 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 41, p. 127