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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Banks of the Seine near Jumièges and Duclair, Normandy c.1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Banks of the Seine near Jumièges and Duclair, Normandy’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Banks of the Seine near Jumièges and Duclair, Normandy c.1832
D24638
Turner Bequest CCLIX 73
Gouache and watercolour with pen on blue paper, 140 x 189 mm
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked gouache and watercolour paints over this ink drawing to depict the hilly banks of the Seine near Jumièges and Duclair in Normandy. A small vessel and an exposed patch of rock on the hillside are reflected in the river’s calm waters. Sketches of this stretch of the Seine recur frequently in the Seine and Paris sketchbook and presumably contributed to the conception of this colour study. For lists of these sketchbook drawings, see the entry for Tate D24015 (Turner Bequest CCLIV 68). For the finished watercolour of this terrain which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24671 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 106). All this activity culminated in an illustration for the 1834 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impression T05603.
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The centre of the sheet bears the stamp of the Turner Bequest monogram and its Bequest number ‘CCLIX 73’. This number is inscribed again at the centre of the bottom edge of the sheet.

John Chu
August 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘The Banks of the Seine near Jumièges and Duclair, Normandy c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-banks-of-the-seine-near-jumieges-and-duclair-normandy-r1173081, accessed 18 April 2024.