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 Beaugency, Loire Valley c.1828-30

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Beaugency, Loire Valley’ c.1828-30
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Beaugency, Loire Valley c.1828–30
D24660
Turner Bequest CCLIX 95
Watercolour, gouache and ink on blue paper, 138 x 188 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Beaugency on the River Loire, viewed from just beyond its dilapidated ramparts to the north east, is one of several depictions of the town in gouache and watercolour on blue paper which Turner worked up after his 1826 tour. It is based on pencil studies made in the Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris sketchbook; see entry for Tate D23261 and especially D23294 (Turner Bequest CCXLIX 8a, 25).1 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.144, 224 no.92
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of blue paper with red fibres used by Turner made by George Steart of Bally, Ellen and Steart at De Montault Mill, Coombe Down, Bath. Another sheet from the batch bears a watermark dated 1828. 1
1
Ibid. p.238.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the note ‘CCLIX . 95’ in the centre of the sheet. Stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCLIX 95’ in the centre of the sheet.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Beaugency, Loire Valley c.1828–30 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-beaugency-loire-valley-r1185522, accessed 25 April 2024.