'Montjean-sur-Loire', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Montjean-sur-Loire

Date c.1826-8

MediumWatercolour, gouache and pen and watercolour on paper

Dimensionssupport: 142 x 192 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D24767

Turner Bequest CCLIX 202

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Exhibition catalogue text

Catalogue entry from Turner on the Loire

74 Montjean-sur-Loire c.1826-8 (fig.80)
Watercolour and gouache, with pen, on faded blue paper (type B) 142 x 192 (5 5/8 x 7 1/2)
Preliminary sketches: TB CCXLVIII f.20
Copies: There is a copy of this work by the American artist Thomas Moran, dated 1866 (Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa)
EXH: Marlborough House 1857, frame 137, no.305, as 'Mont Jean' (Ruskin, Works, XIII, p.312: one of three Ruskin described as 'All first-rate'); Exhibited Drawings, no.619, b (Ruskin, Works, XIII, p.637); displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1920-21
LIT:; Finberg 1909, II, p.801, as 'Mont Jean'; L?v?que-Mingam 1996, p.51 fig.34
TB CCLIX 202; D24767

Published in:
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.221 no.74, reproduced in colour p… (read more)