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 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Béhuard, near Angers c.1826-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Béhuard, near Angers’ c.1826-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?Béhuard, near Angers c.1826–8
D24596
Turner Bequest CCLIX 31
Watercolour, gouache and ink on blue paper, 141 x 195 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘31’ bottom right
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLIX 31’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner based this depiction of a riverside settlement picked out against a dark sky on a pencil sketch he made in the Nantes, Angers and Saumur sketchbook of 1826; see entry for Tate D23195 (Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 23a). Turner specialist Ian Warrell has suggested that the subject is Béhuard, situated on an island in the River Loire.1
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.113, 209 note 133.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of dense blue paper with black fibres used by Turner made by George Steart of Bally, Ellen and Steart at De Montault Mill, Coombe Down, Bath.1
1
Ibid. p.238.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the note ‘31’ in the top left-hand corner.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Béhuard, near Angers c.1826–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, 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-behuard-near-angers-r1185514, accessed 25 April 2024.