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 View at Metz from the Rue de la Garde Looking down the Moselle under its Four Bridges and (Centre) at the Towers of St Vincent's Church 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View at Metz from the Rue de la Garde Looking down the Moselle under its Four Bridges and (Centre) at the Towers of St Vincent's Church’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
View at Metz from the Rue de la Garde Looking down the Moselle under its Four Bridges and (Centre) at the Towers of St Vincent’s Church 1839
D28235
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 36
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘36’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLXXXVIII–36’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Metz, taken from the Rue de la Garde, incorporates four of the bridges which traverse the Moselle. The furthest bridge is situated closest to the twin-towered Church of Saint-Vincent.
For other representations of Metz in this sketchbook see Tate D28200, D28216–D28219, D28221, D28232–D28234; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 17a, 25a–27, 28, 34–35a. There is also a gouache and watercolour drawing of the city produced on blue paper in 1839 (Tate D24757; Turner Bequest CCLIX 192). For earlier depictions of Metz see the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D19706, D19709, D19786; Turner Bequest CCXVI 79, 80a, 118).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View at Metz from the Rue de la Garde Looking down the Moselle under its Four Bridges and (Centre) at the Towers of St Vincent’s Church 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-view-at-metz-from-the-rue-de-la-garde-looking-down-the-r1150512, accessed 20 September 2024.