Louis-François Cassas
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Louis-François Cassas (June 3, 1756 – November 1, 1827) was a distinguished French landscape painter, sculptor, architect, archeologist and antiquary born at Azay-le-Ferron, in the Indre Department of France. His father was an artisan in the office of the "Ponts et Chaussés", and Cassas followed him there as an apprentice draughtsman when he was only fifteen years old.[1]
Life
As the godson of the Marquis Louis-François de Gallifet, owner of the
From 1784 to 1786, Cassas lived and worked at the French embassy.
At the beginning of the
At the turn of the eighteenth to nineteenth century, the artist had already combined his first observations of Egyptian monuments in a series of paintings which were very influential on many artists and stage designers in the early decades of the nineteenth century.[6] He was appointed as drawing professor and later as General Inspector at the Gobelin Tapestry Manufactory, for contributing to the development of products from this factory.[7]
He died in
Works
As an architect, he was occupied many years in forming a large collection of 745 architectural models of ancient monuments in cork and terracotta in almost every kind of style, from many countries and epochs. They were exhibited in 1806, along with engravings of the original sites and present-day ruins behind them. Eventually, he came to disposed of them for a small annuity to the imperial government for the general use of the public.[10] They were deposited in the Palais de l'Institut and later transferred to Paris's École des Beaux-Arts.[11]
Besides his architectural and archaeological drawings and sketches, he drew numerous costumes studies, views and processions, as well as scenes from daily life, plants and animals of all sorts. He also exhibited views of his travels at the "Salons", which were periodic art exhibitions sponsored by the French Académie Royale, in 1804 and 1814, and published Picturesque views of the Principal Sites and Monuments of Greece, of Sicily, and of the Seven Hills of Rome, of which thirty parts had already been published by 1813.
See also
Notes
- Collection of Modern and Contemporary Voyages & Travels, vol. I, printed for Richard Phillips, 6, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, by Bernard & Sulter, Water Lane, Fleet Street, London, 1805.
References
- ^ a b c d e Marisa Ciceran. "Relevant Non-Istrians". Istrianet.org. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
- ISBN 2-9519615-1-0
- ^ a b c Juan de la Torre Suárez. "La Egiptología, Egipto y los Primeros viajeros del siglo XVIII". Egiptomania.com. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
- ^ ISBN 1-4179-5166-4
- ^ Frances Terpak and Peter Bonfitto. "Louis-Francois Cassas". The Legacy of Ancient Palmyra. The Getty Research Institute. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
- ISBN 1-84472-006-3
- ^ Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, vol. 4, pg. 128, Paris, 1854. (in French)
- ^ Hugh James Rose, A new general biographical dictionary, Vol. 6, pg. 99, London, 1857.
- ^ Antoine-Vincent Arnault, Antoine Jay, Etienne de Jouy, Norvins (M. de), Biographie nouvelle des contemporains: ou Dictionnaire historique, pg. 163, Paris, 1821.
- ISBN 0-7923-6247-0
- ^ Taylor Institute, The Foreign review, vol. 2, pg. 653, London, 1828.
Bibliography
- Elisabeth A. Fraser, "In the Shadow of les Grands: Cassas's Orientalist Self-Fashioning," in Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839, Penn State University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-271-07320-0
External links
- Louis-Francois Cassas material, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession No. 840011.
- Travels in Istria and Dalmatia at the Internet Archive
- V oyage pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palaestine et de la Basse Aegypte: ouvrage divisé en trois volumes contenant environ trois cent trente planches