Joseph Mallord William Turner

Walls of the Château d’Eu

1824

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 78 × 118 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D19958
Turner Bequest CCXVI 204

Catalogue entry

This previously unidentified sketch, catalogued by Finberg as ‘City Walls’, appears to depict the exterior walls which surround the chateau at Eu, with a group of figures relaxing on a grassy slope nearby. The chateau was erected in 1578 as the residence of Henri de Guise and Catherine de Clèves and later developed by Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans (1627–1693), cousin to Louis XVI, who was known colloquially as ‘La Grande Mademoiselle’.1 Part of the wall is shown again on Tate D19961; Turner Bequest CCXVI 206.

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‘Architecture’, Château d’Eu, Musée Louis-Philippe, accesed 27 October 2014, http://www.chateau-eu.fr/le-chateau-deu/

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Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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