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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Montlouis; Chouzy, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Montlouis; Chouzy, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Montlouis; Chouzy, Loire Valley 1826
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Turner Bequest CCXLIX 16
Pencil on white laid paper, 153 x 103 mm
Partial watermark of bunch of grapes
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cheval Blanc | Chouzy H[...]’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘16’ top right, ‘266’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with multiple small views of riverside terrain with buildings. These sketches have been identified as depictions of the settlements of Montlouis and Chouzy on the River Loire, located some twenty-four miles apart on each side of the city of Amboise.1

John Chu
May 2013

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 236.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Montlouis; Chouzy, Loire Valley 1826 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, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-montlouis-chouzy-loire-valley-r1185115, accessed 19 April 2024.