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

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J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Market at Eu 1845

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Market at Eu’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Market at Eu 1845
D40172
Pencil on white wove paper, 232 x 328 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sunday’ towards bottom left, ‘Fish’ towards bottom right
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram above ‘CCCLIX – 16’ towards bottom left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rapidly drawn on the verso of D35451 (Turner Bequest CCCLIX 16), this pencil sketch depicts the small, ‘irregular market-place’ east of the collegiate chapel of Eu.1 An awning can be seen at the extreme left while the buildings bordering the open space, including the steeply pitched rooftop of the King Louis-Philippe’s summer palace, have been cursorily dashed down. The inscription ‘fish’ to right of the main group of figures identifies the produce on sale while the inscription to the far left may read ‘Sunday’, giving the day of the week.

John Chu
February 2014

1
John Murray (ed.), Hand-Book for Travellers in France, revised ed., London, Paris and Leipzig 1844, p.66.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘The Market at Eu 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-the-market-at-eu-r1173553, accessed 11 July 2026.