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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Convent of Sainte-Barbe, Normandy 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Convent of Sainte-Barbe, Normandy’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Verso:
Convent of Sainte-Barbe, Normandy 1832
D24004
Turner Bequest CCLIV 62a
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner drew a cursory sketch of the Convent of Sainte-Barbe on the Seine near Rouen at the centre of this page. The river frontage is shown towards the right with the plateau of Canteleu rising behind. The mainly seventeenth-century edifice appears in a watercolour that Turner worked up around this time perhaps with a view to engraved reproduction; see Tate D24643 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 78).

John Chu
July 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Convent of Sainte-Barbe, Normandy 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-convent-of-sainte-barbe-normandy-r1173409, accessed 20 April 2024.