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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Rome, Turin and Milan Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Group of Buildings 1828-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Group of Buildings’ 1828-9
Folio 58 Recto:
The Bridge and Carmelite Church, Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin 1829
D21757
Turner Bequest CCXXXV 58
Pencil on cream wove paper, 90 x 144 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘57’ (blurred) top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ink ‘CCXXXV – 57’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this sketch is identified here as the French town of Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin, located along the River Guiers to the west of Chambéry. Turner likely reached this location in the third week of January 1829, as he travelled north-west towards Lyon. From the banks of the river, Turner’s view takes in the single-arched bridge at the centre and the Carmelite Church (l’Eglise des Carmes) to the right, with its domed belltower.
Turner had previously visited Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin on both the outward and return legs of his first major tour of Italy in 1819–20; for a list of relevant works, see Nicola Moorby’s entry for the Paris, France, Savoy 2 sketchbook in the present catalogue (Tate D14085; Turner Bequest CLXXIII 59 a).
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Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘The Bridge and Carmelite Church, Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin 1829’, catalogue entry, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/the-bridge-and-carmelite-church-le-pont-de-beauvoisin-r1210398, accessed 03 August 2025.