Palace of Queen Joanna (Palazzo Donn'Anna) at Posillipo
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1780
Materials
Graphite on paper
Measurements
212 x 315 mm
Place of origin
Naples
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849448
Summary
Graphite on paper, Palace of Queen Joanna (now Palazzo Donn'Anna) at Posillipo by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), 1780. 68. Vue du Palais de la Reine Jeanne au Pausilippe. Inscribed: Palace of Queen Jeanne at Pausilippe. Mounted together with ICK/D/67 on same mount and marked ARD. Encircled 111 on reverse.
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: Encircled 111.
Makers and roles
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827), artist