Alexandre-Louis-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, Prince de Leon, later Duc de Rohan (1761-1816)
French School
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1800 - 1829
Materials
Pastel, fixed with glue, on paper laid down on canvas
Measurements
650 x 530 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 851722
Summary
Pastel, fixed with glue, on paper laid down on canvas, Alexandre-Louis-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, Prince de Leon, later 8th Duc de Rohan (1761-1816), French School, early 19th century. A head-and-shoulders portrait of a man, turned to the left, gazing to the right, against plain darkish grey background. Short, light grey curly hair. High white collar, white cravat. Dark grey-blue jacket. The Duc de Rohan and his wife were close friends of the 1st Marquess and Marchioness of Bristol.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. Acquired by the National Trust in 1956 under the auspices of the National Land Fund, later the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Credit line
Ickworth, The Bristol Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1956)
Makers and roles
French School, artist previously catalogued as after Baron François Gérard (Rome 1770 – Paris 1837), artist
References
Farrer 1908 Edmund Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), 1908, no. 142 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, fig. 2, p. 59 McMordie 1976 Colin McMordie, Louis-François Cassas: "The Formation of a neo-classical Landscapist", Apollo, March 1976, pp. 228-230