'The Raising of Lazarus, after Guercino', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The Raising of Lazarus, after Guercino

From Studies in the Louvre Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXII

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 128 x 114 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D04342

Turner Bequest LXXII 53

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 53 Recto:

The Raising of Lazarus, after Guercino 1802

D04342
Turner Bequest LXXII 53

Pencil, with some scratching out, on white wove paper prepared with a dark grey wash, 128 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘53’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXII–53’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Guercino’s picture was painted around 1619 for Cardinal Jacopo Serra. Turner set out what is probably a colour key of this picture on folio 52 verso of this sketchbook, facing his copy, and further comments on folios 54 recto and verso (D04341, D04343, D04344). Here, and in a later Perspective lecture at the Royal Academy when he praised its ‘sepulchral darkness’, he believed the picture to be by Domenichino.1 Turner also thought Guercino’s Mars and Venus to be by Domenichino; see folio 36 (D04320) and his copy on folio 35 (D04319). See also folio 37 (D04322) for a copy of a Guercino Virgin and Child then in the Louvre.

For the lecture text, see John Gage, Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth, London 1969, p.208.

Verso:

Blank

David Blayney Brown
July 2005

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.