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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Walls of the Château d'Eu 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Walls of the Château d'Eu’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Walls of the Château d’Eu 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 204
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘204’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–204’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This previously unidentified sketch, catalogued by Finberg as ‘City Walls’, appears to depict the exterior walls which surround the chateau at Eu, with a group of figures relaxing on a grassy slope nearby. The chateau was erected in 1578 as the residence of Henri de Guise and Catherine de Clèves and later developed by Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans (1627–1693), cousin to Louis XVI, who was known colloquially as ‘La Grande Mademoiselle’.1 Part of the wall is shown again on Tate D19961; Turner Bequest CCXVI 206.
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‘Architecture’, Château d’Eu, Musée Louis-Philippe, accesed 27 October 2014, http://www.chateau-eu.fr/le-chateau-deu/
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Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Walls of the Château d’Eu 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-walls-of-the-chateau-deu-r1174753, accessed 24 April 2024.