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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures at ?Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures at ?Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso:
Figures at ?Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin 1819
D14079
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 56 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Red | white [?folded]’, ‘Green’ and ‘Red striped’ right of left-hand figure
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has used this page to make a number of figure studies, including a sketch of a single woman in the top left-hand corner, and a mixed group of men, women and children in the top right-hand corner. As was often the case during his European travels he appears to have been interested in the regional variations of local costume and he has annotated the drawing of the female on the left with notes concerning colour and other small sartorial details.
The position of the sketch in between two views of Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin suggests that Turner may have observed the figures in this town which lies on the border between Isère and Savoy, see folio 57 (D14080).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Figures at ?Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-figures-at-le-pont-de-beauvoisin-r1142938, accessed 25 April 2024.