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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Montjean-sur-Loire, Loire Valley c.1826-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Montjean-sur-Loire, Loire Valley’ c.1826-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Montjean-sur-Loire, Loire Valley c.1826–8
D24728
Turner Bequest CCLIX 163
Watercolour and gouache on faded blue paper, 141 x 197 mm
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CCLIX – 163’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of several colour studies on blue paper of the town of Montjean-sur-Loire, perched on its riverside eminence, which Turner worked up from his 1826 tour of the Loire Valley.1 It is based on pencil studies in the Nantes, Angers and Saumur sketchbook; see entry for Tate D23190 and D23191 (Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 21, 21a). See the Introduction to this section for a list of comparable studies of the site.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.92–5.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of lightweight blue paper 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 ‘CCLIX . 163’ in the bottom right-hand corner of the page.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Montjean-sur-Loire, Loire Valley 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-montjean-sur-loire-loire-valley-r1185535, accessed 19 April 2024.