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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ruined Péage near Champtoceaux, Loire Valley c.1826-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ruined Péage near Champtoceaux, Loire Valley’ c.1826-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Ruined Péage near Champtoceaux, Loire Valley c.1826–8
D24663
Turner Bequest CCLIX 98
Watercolour and gouache on blue paper, 141 x 189 mm
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made this colour study on blue paper of the ruined medieval toll-station, or péage, near Champtoceaux as seen from the west after his 1826 tour of the River Loire. It is based on pencil sketches in the Nantes, Angers and Saumur sketchbook; see especially D23176 (Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 13a) and also D23175, D23177 (Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 13, 14). 1
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.221 no.70.
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:
See entry for Tate D40078.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Ruined Péage near Champtoceaux, Loire Valley 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-ruined-peage-near-champtoceaux-loire-valley-r1185526, accessed 18 April 2024.