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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Meung-sur-Loire; Cléry-Saint-André, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Meung-sur-Loire; Cléry-Saint-André, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Meung-sur-Loire; Cléry-Saint-André, Loire Valley 1826
D23301
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 28a
Pencil on white laid paper, 153 x 103 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘M[...] | ‘Meun[...]’ top left, ‘Cleri’ right centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with small drawings of buildings and riverside terrain in the Loire Valley. The towers have been identified as those belonging to the town of Meung-sur-Loire or the basilica at Cléry-Saint-André on the opposite bank of the river near Beaugency.1

John Chu
May 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.237.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Meung-sur-Loire; Cléry-Saint-André, Loire Valley 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, 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-meung-sur-loire-clery-saint-andre-loire-valley-r1185140, accessed 20 May 2025.