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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Studies in the Louvre Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Erminia and Valfrino Tending the Wounded Tancred After the Battle with Argante, after Pier Francesco Mola 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Erminia and Valfrino Tending the Wounded Tancred After the Battle with Argante, after Pier Francesco Mola’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Recto:
Erminia and Valfrino Tending the Wounded Tancred After the Battle with Argante, after Pier Francesco Mola 1802
D04378
Turner Bequest LXXII 79
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 114 x 128 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘79’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXII–79’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner turned the sketchbook to landscape format to make this drawing. Mola’s picture illustrates Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata (1581). It was bought by Louis XIV in 1685. Turner saw it and copied it together with another illustration of the story by Mola, which was not painted as a companion since it is of a different size and was acquired by the King some years later. They were however presumably hung together. The present subject was returned to the Louvre in 1986, having gone missing after the last war and entered the collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Turner also copied Mola’s St John the Baptist Preaching in this sketchbook, folio18 (D04294), and his Vision of St Bruno in his France, Savoy, Piedmont sketchbook (Tate D04394; Turner Bequest LXXIII 2).
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David Blayney Brown
July 2005

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Erminia and Valfrino Tending the Wounded Tancred After the Battle with Argante, after Pier Francesco Mola 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2005, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-erminia-and-valfrino-tending-the-wounded-tancred-after-the-r1129787, accessed 25 April 2024.