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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View down the Moselle from the Napoleonsbrücke with the Church of Saints Simon and Jude, Pallien, in the Foreground 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View down the Moselle from the Napoleonsbrücke with the Church of Saints Simon and Jude, Pallien, in the Foreground’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Verso:
View down the Moselle from the Napoleonsbrücke with the Church of Saints Simon and Jude, Pallien, in the Foreground 1839
D28257
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 50 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Pallien’ bottom centre towards left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Pallien looking down the Moselle was taken from the Napoleonsbrücke, an arched sandstone bridge erected in 1804 in the reign of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.1 The Church of Saints Simon and Jude can be seen in the foreground close to a small bridge, and beyond: hillsides and the sweeping, serpentine meander of the river. Turner’s handling is free and varied in this sketch; he has inscribed the town’s name at the bottom close to the gutter of the book.
Other views taken from the Pallien hillsides in this sketchbook include Tate D28246, D28255, D28256, D28258–D28260; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 43a, 49a, 50, 51–52. See also the Trèves and Rhine sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D20150; Turner Bequest CCXVIII 12).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

1
‘Napoleonsbrücke’, Datenbank der Kulturgüter in der Region Trier, accessed May 2013, http://www.roscheiderhof.de/kulturdb/client/einObjekt.php?id=6476

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View down the Moselle from the Napoleonsbrücke with the Church of Saints Simon and Jude, Pallien, in the Foreground 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-down-the-moselle-from-the-napoleonsbrucke-with-the-r1150534, accessed 27 April 2024.