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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of the Viaduct of the 'Pré au pont' between Charleville and Mézières 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of the Viaduct of the 'Pré au pont' between Charleville and Mézières’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto
Two Views of the Viaduct of the ‘Pré au pont’ between Charleville and Mézières 1839
D28197
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 16
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 168 x 101 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The viaduct of the ‘Pré au Pont’ near Mézières is depicted from a distant perspective at the upper register and again from a closer viewpoint in the lower sketch. The tower of the Basilica of Notre-Dame d’Espérance is cursorily rendered in both sketches.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Views of the Viaduct of the ‘Pré au pont’ between Charleville and Mézières 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-two-views-of-the-viaduct-of-the-pre-au-pont-between-r1150474, accessed 23 September 2024.