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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Copy of François Vivares's Engraving after Gaspard Dughet's 'Landscape with Horseman' c.1800-1

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Copy of François Vivares’s Engraving after Gaspard Dughet’s ‘Landscape with Horseman’ c.1800–1
D03653
Turner Bequest LXI 1
Pencil and black chalk on coarse off-white wove paper, 131 x 206 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXI – 1’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this drawing is after the painting Landscape with Horseman by Gaspard Dughet (1615–1675), now at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, but Turner evidently used as his model the print of 1741 by François Vivares (1709–1780), which is in reverse.1 See also folios 2 recto and 3 recto (D03654, D03655), and folio 23 recto (D03673; Turner Bequest LXI 21).
1
See Anne French, Gaspard Dughet, Called Gaspar Poussin, 1615–75: A French Landscape Painter in Seventeenth Century Rome and his Influence on British Art, exhibition catalogue, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, London 1980, no.42 and reproduction.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Copy of François Vivares’s Engraving after Gaspard Dughet’s ‘Landscape with Horseman’ c.1800–1 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, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-copy-of-francois-vivaress-engraving-after-gaspard-dughets-r1178035, accessed 27 April 2024.