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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Spa, Dinant and Namur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Church and Citadel, Dinant, from the Grand'Place 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church and Citadel, Dinant, from the Grand'Place’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
The Church and Citadel, Dinant, from the Grand’Place 1839
D28156
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 61
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 154 x 94 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘350’ bottom right and ‘60’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXVII–61’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the other half of a detailed drawing of the citadel and Church of Notre-Dame at Dinant which continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D28155; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 60a). The view is taken at street level, offering a striking contrast of architectural scale and style. Turner’s handling is deliberate and fine: a careful rendering of a picturesque and impressive scene.
For other views of Dinant in this sketchbook see Tate D28042, D28094, D28122, D28125, D28142, D28147, D28153, D28157–D28158, D28160–D28166, D41091; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 1, 27a, 42a, 44a, 53, 56a, 59a, 62–62a, 63a–66a. There are also colour sketches of the town produced in gouache on blue paper between 1834–9, some with pen and ink and watercolour added (Tate D20227, D20228, D24724, D28984; Turner Bequest CCXX T, U; CCLIX 159, CCXCII 37).
For earlier views of Dinant taken in 1824, see Tate D19556–D19663, D20109–D20113; Turner Bequest CCXVI 53a–57, CCXVII 16–19.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Church and Citadel, Dinant, from the Grand’Place 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-church-and-citadel-dinant-from-the-grandplace-r1150430, accessed 26 April 2024.