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 > Rouen, Le Havre, Caen, Bayeux and Isigny ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Luc-sur-Mer, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Luc-sur-Mer, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Luc-sur-Mer, Normandy 1826
D23510
Turner Bequest CCLI 27a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Luc’ towards top right, ‘St L[...]’, ‘Maison ?Rouge’, ‘Luc’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with multiple studies of buildings, boats and figures in coastal terrain. Two pencil notes locate these sketches to the vicinity of Luc-sur-Mer. The artist filled multiple pages of the present volume with studies of the settlements of the Normandy coast, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Luc-sur-Mer, Normandy 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-luc-sur-mer-normandy-r1185353, accessed 25 April 2024.