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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Folies-Siffait and Oudon, Loire Valley c.1826-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Folies-Siffait and Oudon, Loire Valley’ c.1826-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folies-Siffait and Oudon, Loire Valley c.1826–8
D24703
Turner Bequest CCLIX 138
Watercolour, gouache and ink on blue paper, 143 x 193 mm
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLIX – 138’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made this colour study of the recently-constructed riverside garden folly, the Folies Siffait, with the Tower of Oudon in the distance after his 1826 tour of the River Loire. It shows these sites from the west and is based on pencil sketches in the Nantes, Angers and Saumur sketchbook; see entry for Tate D23172- D23173 (Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 11a-12).1
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.220 no.66.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of 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 ‘19’.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Folies-Siffait and Oudon, 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-folies-siffait-and-oudon-loire-valley-r1185529, accessed 20 April 2024.