Joseph Mallord William Turner

Notes on Nicolas Poussin (Inscriptions by Turner)

1802

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Studies in the Louvre Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 114 × 128 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D04390
Turner Bequest LXXII 90

Catalogue entry

Turner’s shorthand notes ‘Diogen | Adultery | Manna | Rebecca | Death’, written at top left of the leaf, refer to the titles of pictures by Poussin which he noted in more detail elsewhere in this sketchbook. These are: Landscape with Diogenes, for which – and for the Louvre Poussins in general – see folio 25 verso (D04302); The Woman Taken in Adultery, for which see folio 27 Tate (D04305); The Gathering of the Manna, for which see folio 26 verso (D04304); Eleazer and Rebecca at the Well, for which see chiefly folio 72 (D04367); and probably The Plague of Ashdod, for which also see folio 27.

Turner also seems to have drawn two small circles to right of his notes.

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David Blayney Brown
July 2005

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