J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Studies in the Louvre Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Concert-champêtre, after Giorgione/Titian 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Concert-champêtre, after Giorgione/Titian’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Recto:
Concert-champêtre, after Giorgione/Titian 1802
D04348
Turner Bequest LXXII 57
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a reddish grey wash, 128 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘57’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXII–57’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A very perfunctory continuation – worked only in pencil – of the copy on folio 56 verso of this sketchbook (D04347), for which see catalogue entry for the original picture. Turner’s notes on the picture were made on the verso of this leaf (D04349). They indicate his disapproval of the ‘Spanish figures’ on the right half of the composition, which he has hardly made specific in this part of his sketch.
There is a fold-mark across the top-left corner of this leaf.

David Blayney Brown
July 2005

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Concert-champêtre, after Giorgione/Titian 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2005, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-concert-champetre-after-giorgionetitian-r1129757, accessed 24 April 2024.