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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Château de Blois, Loire Valley c.1828-30

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Château de Blois, Loire Valley’ c.1828-30
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Château de Blois, Loire Valley c.1828–30
D24662
Turner Bequest CCLIX 97
Watercolour, gouache and ink on blue paper, 138 x 191 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made this colour study on blue paper of the lower part of the Façade des Loges of the Château de Blois after his 1826 tour of the River Loire. It is based mainly on a pencil study in the Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris sketchbook; see entry for Tate D23286 (Turner Bequest CCXLIX 21). 1 The right-hand side of the composition terminates with a depiction of the Church of Saint-Nicholas-de-Paul which Turner has introduced from another location in the town. This is based on another pencil study in the same sketchbook; see entry for Tate D23285 (Turner Bequest CCXLIX 20a).2
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.223 no.90.
2
Ibid.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of blue paper with red fibres used by Turner made by George Steart of Bally, Ellen and Steart at De Montault Mill, Coombe Down, Bath. Another sheet from the batch bears a watermark dated 1828. 1
1
Ibid. p.238.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the notes ‘1’ in the top left-hand corner of the sheet and ‘CCLIX . 97’ in the centre. Stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCLIX 97’ in the centre of the sheet.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Château de Blois, Loire Valley c.1828–30 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-blois-loire-valley-r1185525, accessed 25 April 2024.