Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Louis-François Cassas
View of Constantinople
Auction Closed
January 27, 05:29 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Louis-François Cassas
Azay-le-Feron 1756 - 1827 Versailles
View of Constantinople
Watercolor;
bears pen and ink inscriptions on labels attached to the back of the frame: Gouache fin XVIIIe siècle 18e=/ provient de Gen...? oú elle se trouvait/à la salle à manger / Vue de la pointe du serail et L'entree du / port de Constantinople, sur la Gauche on voit/ les cotes de L'asie et dans le fond la mer / de marmora et le montagnes de Bithinie.
680 by 1000 mm (sight size); 26 7/8 by 39 3/8 in
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Louis-François Cassas was a French landscape painter, sculptor and architect. He studied under the tutelage of a number of distinguished artists, including Joseph-Marie Vien (1716-1809), Louis Jean Francois Lagrenée, the younger (1739-1821) and Jean Baptiste Le Prince (1734-1781). He traveled to Italy in 1778 where he studied the ancient monuments in Rome, Naples and Sicily. In 1784 he accompanied the Count Choiseul Gouffier, the French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, on his mission to Constantinople, where he was commissioned to execute drawings for the Ambassador's second volume of Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce, published in 1809.