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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Church of Saint-Gervais and Saint-Protais at Gisors, Normandy 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church of Saint-Gervais and Saint-Protais at Gisors, Normandy’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
Church of Saint-Gervais and Saint-Protais at Gisors, Normandy 1832
D23956
Turner Bequest CCLIV 38a
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with an interior view the Church of Saint-Gervais and Saint-Protais at Gisors, located some twenty-five miles east of the Seine as it flows past Les Andelys. The diagonal lines crossing the two tall columns at the centre of the scene indicate the elaborate twisting ornament that animates the double aisles of the Gothic and Renaissance edifice.
Gisors and its ancient architecture are the subject of particular study in this sketchbook. For a list of associated sketches in the volume, see the entry for folio 41 verso (D23962; Turner Bequest CCLIV 41a). For a slightly later watercolour study of the town’s landmarks in the Turner Bequest, see Tate D20265 (Turner Bequest CCXXII F).

John Chu
July 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Church of Saint-Gervais and Saint-Protais at Gisors, Normandy 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-church-of-saint-gervais-and-saint-protais-at-gisors-normandy-r1173361, accessed 24 April 2024.