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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pierre Bécherelle, near Épiré c.1826-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pierre Bécherelle, near Épiré’ c.1826-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Pierre Bécherelle, near Épiré c.1826–8
D24748
Turner Bequest CCLIX 183
Watercolour and gouache on blue paper, 141 x 195 mm
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLIX – 183’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This colour study of the tower-like rocky outcrop near Épiré, known as La Pierre Bécherelle, was worked up by Turner from his 1826 tour of the River Loire. It is based on pencil drawings in the Nantes, Angers and Saumur sketchbook; see the drawing second from the bottom on D23195 (Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 23a) and the top drawing on D23196 (Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 24).1
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.221 no.76.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the note ‘CCLIX . 183’ towards the bottom right-hand corner of the page.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Pierre Bécherelle, near Épiré 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-pierre-becherelle-near-pire-r1185537, accessed 23 April 2024.