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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Canteleu, Normandy 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Canteleu, Normandy 1832
D23997
Turner Bequest CCLIV 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Red’ centre right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘59’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLIV – 59 top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the top half of this page with a south-westerly view down the Seine as flows past Canteleu, near Rouen. In the top right-hand corner can be glimpsed the main part of Canteleu perched on its plateau on the right bank of the river. The spire rising above the other buildings belongs to the thirteenth-century Church of Saint-Martin. For a watercolour of Canteleu that Turner worked up around this time perhaps with a view to engraved reproduction, see Tate D24643 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 78).

John Chu
July 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Canteleu, 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-canteleu-normandy-r1173402, accessed 19 September 2024.