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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner An Interior with a Curtained Bed, with a Standing Woman c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Interior with a Curtained Bed, with a Standing Woman’ c.1834-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
An Interior with a Curtained Bed, with a Standing Woman c.1834–6
D28940
Turner Bequest CCXCI c 39
Watercolour on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the bright, draped form is probably a curtained bed. The pale form of a standing figure, apparently a woman, stands in the shadows to the right.
For a discussion of the improvisatory and often erotic nature of the watercolour studies making up most of this sketchbook, see the Introduction.
Technical notes:
The unaccessioned, blank recto is numbered in red ink ‘39’ and stamped ‘CCXCI(c) – 39. There is very slight watercolour offsetting from the present page onto the unaccessioned recto of folio 40 opposite (its verso being D28942).

Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘An Interior with a Curtained Bed, with a Standing Woman c.1834–6 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-an-interior-with-a-curtained-bed-with-a-standing-woman-r1149014, accessed 19 September 2024.