The Grand Canal at Trieste with Ships
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1782
Materials
Graphite on paper
Measurements
320 x 457 mm
Place of origin
Trieste
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849460
Summary
Graphite on paper, The Grand Canal at Trieste with Ships by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), 1782. 80. Vue de l'interieur du Canal de Trieste, raisscaux, etc. Mounted. Encircled 144 on reverse. A watercolour in the V&A (1867-1900) is of the same for illustration to "Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Istrie et de la Dalmatie" (1802).
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 144.
Makers and roles
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827), artist
References
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, fig. 2, p. 168 Barbara Nassivera, Louis-François Cassas, L'illustrazione nel libro di viaggio: il 'Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Istrie et de la Dalmatie' (1782), Atti e memorie della Società istriana di Archeologica e Storia Patria, vol. XCIX, Trieste, 1999, della Raccolta (XLVII dell Nuova Serie), p. 169-206