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 > Morlaise to Nantes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Pointe de Saint-Mathieu, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pointe de Saint-Mathieu, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Pointe de Saint-Mathieu, Brittany 1826
D23044
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 19
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVII – 19’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the upper half of this page with a study of a coastal promontory identified by Tate curator Ian Warrell as the Pointe de Sainte-Mathieu in Brittany. Turner also included the ruined abbey in that location on the left-hand side of the sketch.1

John Chu
September 2015

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Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.231.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Pointe de Saint-Mathieu, Brittany 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-pointe-de-saint-mathieu-brittany-r1184872, accessed 15 May 2025.