Geneva from Sécheron side
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
circa 1777
Materials
Graphite on paper
Measurements
225 x 322 mm
Place of origin
Sécheron
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849516
Summary
Graphite on paper, Geneva from the Sécheron side by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), circa 1777. 139. Vue de Genève de côté de Sécheron, prise de al Charpente des Paquid. Mounted together with ICK/D/137. Encircled 90 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
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Encircled 90.
Makers and roles
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827), artist