View of the Piazza called La Felicita di San Francesco in Bologna
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1778
Materials
Graphite on paper
Measurements
198 x 304 mm
Place of origin
Bologna
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849546
Summary
Graphite on beige laid paper, View of the Piazza called La Felicita di San Francesco in Bologna by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), 1778. Annnotated by the artist bottom left: vue de la place dite la / A feliciata di S. francesco in Bologna. Mounted together with ICK/D/168 on same mount.
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
Recto: Top left in ink - 169 Recto: Top left in chalk (cropped) - 9 Verso: in chalk - 150
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 32, p. 109