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Louis François Cassas
1756-1827
Landscape with Ruined Arch
1778
Pen and brown ink, watercolor, over black chalk on paper.
9 7/16 x 13 3/4 inches (240 x 348 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 112b
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
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Signed, dated and inscribed by the artist, at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "L.F. Cassas f. 1778 a Rome".
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Bibliography:
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 90.
Denison, Cara, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles. Exploring Rome : Piranesi and His Contemporaries. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library; Montréal : Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993, no. 113, repr.
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