1782
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Istrie et de la Dalmatie is a 1782 watercolor by Louis-François Cassas, a Rococo painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows locals near Split, Croatia in 1782. One man wears a white cap, another a dark jacket. A long stone aqueduct runs behind them, half-ruined and dusty. Cassas traveled here for art, not war. He sketched what he saw with care, adding details later in his studio. His drawings became prints for a travel book in 1802. See this at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This original watercolour by Louis-François Cassas depicts local inhabitants in the vicinity of Salona, near modern-day Solin, Croatia, wearing traditional dress, with the ruins of the Diocletian Aqueduct visible in the background. Created as part of a commissioned series of views of the Dalmatian and Istrian coast, the drawing includes a group of figures gathered around a large inscribed stone, though the inscription is not legible. Executed en plein air with sepia under-drawings later enhanced with watercolour and ink, the work was engraved and published in *Voyage Pittoresque et Historique…
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Louis-François Cassas (1756–1827) was an artist.
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