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 Place de l'Étape, Orléans c.1826-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Place de l'Étape, Orléans’ c.1826-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Place de l'Étape, Orléans c.1826–8
D24764
Turner Bequest CCLIX 199
Watercolour, gouache and ink on faded blue paper, 143 x 194 mm
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘CCLIX – 199’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked up this colour study of the Place de l'Étape in Orléans looking toward the theatre, the Hôtel Dieu and the cathedral from material gathered on his 1826 tour of Northern France. It is based on a pencil study in the Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris sketchbook; see entry for Tate D23312 (Turner Bequest CCXLIX 34). See the Introduction to this section for a list of comparable studies of the city.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of dense blue paper with dark fibres used by Turner made by George Steart of Bally, Ellen and Steart at De Montault Mill, Coombe Down, Bath. 1
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.238.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the note ‘7’ in the top left-hand corner of the sheet. Stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCLIX – 190’ towards the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet. There is also a red ink note in the bottom left-hand corner of the sheet that has been obscured by the mount.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Place de l'Étape, Orléans 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-place-de-ltape-orleans-r1185545, accessed 11 May 2024.