Vue du Chateau de Saconnex
Medium
black chalk on laid paper, mounted on album sheet
Dimensions
overall: 19.7 x 30.5 cm (7 3/4 x 12 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Phillips Family Fund
Accession Number
2006.95.1
About the Artist
Louis-François Cassas · 1756–1827
Cassas studied with both Neoclassical and Rococo painters. He made extensive travels throughout his life, and is best known for his views, including Rome, Venice, Naples, Sicily, the Istrian and Dalmatian coasts, Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus, and Asia Minor. He drew Classical ruins and many ancient Middle Eastern that had never before been recorded. Back in France, after the Rev...