Architectural Fragments at the Villa Imperiale, Posillipo
Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 - Versailles 1827)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1780
Materials
Pen and brown ink with sepia wash on beige laid paper
Measurements
279 x 437 mm
Place of origin
Posillipo
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 849552
Summary
Pen and brown ink with sepia wash on beige laid paper, Architectural Fragments at the Villa Imperiale, Posillipo by Louis-François Cassas (Azay-le-Ferron 1756 – Versailles 1827), signed lower right,: Lf Cassa f. a Rome and annotated on the bottm of the blue mount in ink: aux sortioes farnesiennes, ou la villa des Empereurs. 1780. Mounted.
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)
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 58, p 157