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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Notre-Dame, Mézières, from the North-East with Fortifications Including the Tour d'Ecole and the Tour Militaire and the Meuse in the Distance 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notre-Dame, Mézières, from the North-East with Fortifications Including the Tour d'Ecole and the Tour Militaire and the Meuse in the Distance’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
Notre-Dame, Mézières, from the North-East with Fortifications Including the Tour d’Ecole and the Tour Militaire and the Meuse in the Distance 1839
D28196
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 15 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered in swift and loose line, this sketch Turner depicts Mézières from a north-easterly angle: a view which incorporates the imposing Gothic Basilica of Notre-Dame d’Espérance and the Tour d’Ecole and Tour Militaire in the foreground. The curving meander of the Meuse can be seen in the distance. This drawing, and other sketches of Mézières (see Tate D28191, D28193, D28195, D28199, D28201, D28204; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19a), constitute preparatory studies for a gouache and watercolour executed on blue paper in 1839 (Tate D24731; Turner Bequest CCLIX 166).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Notre-Dame, Mézières, from the North-East with Fortifications Including the Tour d’Ecole and the Tour Militaire and the Meuse in the Distance 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-notre-dame-mezieres-from-the-north-east-with-fortifications-r1150473, accessed 20 September 2024.