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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Château de la Madeleine, Varades c.1826-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Château de la Madeleine, Varades’ c.1826-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Château de la Madeleine, Varades c.1826–8
D24656
Turner Bequest CCLIX 91
Watercolour, gouache and ink on blue paper, 141 x 191 mm
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner based this depiction of the feudal castle at Varades near the abbey of St-Florent-le-Vieil on a pencil sketch he made from the River Loire in the Nantes, Angers and Saumur sketchbook of 1826; see entry for Tate D23186 (Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 19).1
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.88.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of lightweight blue paper used by Turner made by George Steart of Bally, Ellen and Steart at De Montault Mill, Coombe Down, Bath.1
1
Ibid. p.238.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the note ‘CCLIX . 91’ and stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCLIX – 91’ in the centre of the page.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Château de la Madeleine, Varades c.1826–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, 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-chateau-de-la-madeleine-varades-r1185518, accessed 27 April 2024.