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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Canteleu, Normandy 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Canteleu, Normandy’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
?Canteleu, Normandy 1832
D24002
Turner Bequest CCLIV 61a
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled the top half of this page with sketches of dense, riverside foliage, achieved with cursory zigzagging strokes of the pencil. The drawing in the middle of the page also appears to include a seated group huddled round a single standing figure. Though these passages are too sketchy for the identification of definite locations for the views described, neighbouring pages in the volume suggest that the spire surmounting the eminence in the top right-hand corner may belong to the Church of Saint-Martin on the plateau of Canteleu near Rouen. For a comparison, see the watercolour of Canteleu that Turner worked up around this time perhaps with a view to engraved reproduction; 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-r1173407, accessed 16 April 2024.