VUE DE CONSTANTINOPLE

VUE DE CONSTANTİNOPLE

Cassas Louis-François, (1756-1827)

Circa, 1785

Aquarelle et gouache sur traits graves 52,5 x 77cm, framed

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.

From 1784 to 1786, Cassas lived and worked at the French embassy.[1] In 1784 he accompanied the Count Choiseul-Gouffier, the French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, on his mission to Constantinople.