Study of Trees on Banks of Lake Nemi
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1780
Materials
Crayon, pen and brown and black ink, sepia and grey wash on paper
Measurements
425 x 323 mm
Place of origin
Lake Nemi
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk (Accredited Museum)
NT 849519
Summary
Crayon, pen and black and brown ink and sepia and grey wash on paper, Study of Trees on Banks of Lake Nemi by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), 1780. 141. Etude d'arbres sur les bords du lac de Nemi. Mounted with ARD stamp. A rare example in the Ickworth collection of Cassas drawings of the use of ink and coloured wash which he used on his travels in Sicily in 1784.
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
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, cat 44, p. 131