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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Three Views on the River Saône 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Three Views on the River Saône’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Recto:
?Three Views on the River Saône 1819
D14049
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 37
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘cattle in the w’ bottom right of top left sketch
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 37’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains four distinct sketches which probably all represent views on the River Saône near Trévoux, see folio 39 (D14052). The precise locations are currently unidentified. Turner has annotated the sketch in the top left-hand corner with the note ‘cattle in the water’, a pastoral motif which perhaps reminded him of the work of the seventeenth-century French master, Claude Lorrain (c.1604/5–1682), whose landscapes Turner greatly admired.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Three Views on the River Saône 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-views-on-the-river-saone-r1142907, accessed 27 April 2024.