Lazaret and the Point at Posillipo from the Isle of Nisida
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1780
Materials
Graphite on paper
Measurements
225 x 327 mm
Place of origin
Naples
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849470
Summary
Graphite on paper, Lazaret and the Point at Posillipo from the Isle of Nisida by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827). 91. Vue du Lazaret et de la pointe de Pausilippe, prise de l'Isle du Nisida. Inscrobed top left: 91 and top right :49.
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
Makers and roles
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827), artist