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 > Givet, Mézières, Verdun, Metz, Luxemburg ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Notre-Dame, Mézières, with the Porte de Saint-Julien and Fortifications 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notre-Dame, Mézières, with the Porte de Saint-Julien and Fortifications’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Notre-Dame, Mézières, with the Porte de Saint-Julien and Fortifications 1839
D28195
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 15
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Partial Pro Patria watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the same fortified wall and arched gateway, known as the Porte de Saint-Julien, as in the previous folio (Tate D28194; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 14a). The tower of the Gothic Basilica of Notre-Dame d’Espérance can be seen rising loftily at the right. This and other sketches of Notre-Dame (Tate D28191, D28193, D28196, D28199, D28201, D28204; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 13, 14, 15a, 17, 18, 19a) constitute preparatory studies for a gouache and watercolour drawing of Mézières executed on blue paper in 1839 (Tate D24731; Turner Bequest CCLIX 166).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Notre-Dame, Mézières, with the Porte de Saint-Julien and Fortifications 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-notre-dame-mezieres-with-the-porte-de-saint-julien-and-r1150472, accessed 27 April 2024.