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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of ?the Château of Saint-Bernard on the River Saône 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Three Sketches of ?the Château of Saint-Bernard on the River Saône 1819
D14051
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 38
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three variant sketches of the same group of buildings, tentatively identified as the Château of Saint-Bernard on the River Saône. This thirteenth-century castle lies on a bend in the river near the village of Saint-Bernard, a couple of miles west of Trévoux, see folio 39 (D14052).
Turner travelled along the River Saône by boat between Chalon-sur-Saône and Lyon. The sailing vessel visible on the left-hand side of the upper vista may represent a coche d’eau or water diligence, a public form of transport which constituted an alternative to journeying by road in this part of France. These boats usually had a covered area for passengers to sit beneath. See also folio 43 (D14057).
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Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Sketches of ?the Château of Saint-Bernard 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-sketches-of-the-chateau-of-saint-bernard-on-the-river-r1142909, accessed 29 March 2024.