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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Nantes, Angers and Saumur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Angers; Épiré, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Angers; Épiré, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Angers; Épiré, Loire Valley
D23196
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 24
Pencil on white laid paper, 170 x 110 mm
Partial unidentified watermark
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sand’ towards top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVIII 24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with sketches of riverside terrain. The topmost sketch on the page has been identified as a view La Pierre Bécherelle at Épiré on the River Loire and located the two cliff studies at the bottom of the page to the environs of the city of Angers on the River Maine.1 More tentatively, he suggested that the sketches in between could represent the settlement of Bouchmain, situated at the confluence of the rivers Loire and Maine.

John Chu
April 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 234.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Angers; Épiré, Loire Valley by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-angers-pire-loire-valley-r1185028, accessed 26 April 2024.