The Port Gate of Zadar
1782
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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Louis-François Cassas
Louis-François Cassas (1756–1827) was an artist.
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watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Port Gate of Zadar is a 1782 watercolor by Louis-François Cassas, a Rococo painting work, depicting Gate, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows the Port Gate of Zadar, a stone archway by the water with boats nearby. It looks old, with carvings on the gate and a quiet street leading through it. The artist used soft colors to make the scene feel peaceful. Cassas made many trips to sketch places like this. He traveled to record buildings and landscapes before cameras existed. His drawings helped people far away see these places for the first time. Try Cassas, Louis-François next.
The watercolour depicts the Port Gate of Zadar, also called the St. Chrysogorus Gate, focusing on the 16th-century section of the surviving ramparts rather than the entire structure. Created as part of a commissioned series of views of the Dalmatian and Istrian coast, the drawing was later engraved and published in *Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Istrie et de la Dalmatie* (1802). Cassas employed a technique of initial sepia under-drawings on-site, followed by watercolour and ink detailing in the studio. The work is one of 61 views in the publication that were engraved after his…
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Louis-François Cassas (1756–1827) was an artist.
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