View of Geneva
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1777
Materials
Graphite on paper
Measurements
227 x 317 mm
Place of origin
Geneva
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849481
Summary
Graphite on paper, View of Geneva from St Jean by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), circa 1777. 103 & 104. Vue générales de Genève prise à St. Jean au dessus du Rhône. Encircled 87 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 87 on reverse.
Makers and roles
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827), artist