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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of a Supine Female Nude, with Drapery over her Head 1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of a Supine Female Nude, with Drapery over her Head’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 117 Verso:
Study of a Supine Female Nude, with Drapery over her Head 1799
D02171
Turner Bequest XLVI 117a
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This horizontal study was perhaps drawn from the same model as that on folio 116 verso (D02169), and also related to the 1800 painting The Fifth Plague of Egypt (Indianapolis Museum of Art).1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.10–12 no.13, pl.10 (colour).

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of a Supine Female Nude, with Drapery over her Head 1799 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, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-a-supine-female-nude-with-drapery-over-her-head-r1180030, accessed 19 September 2024.