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 Cinq Mars-le-Pile, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cinq Mars-le-Pile, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Cinq Mars-le-Pile, Loire Valley 1826
D34678
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 243
Pencil on white wove paper, 172 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Langais [...]’ top left, ‘5 Marses’ centre
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 243’ bottom left, descending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These pencil studies of the medieval and ancient ruins at the settlement of Cinq-Mars-la-Pile, just outside Tours, are worked onto a sheet of folded Whatman paper which Turner took on his 1826 tour of Northern France.1 For a list of the sketches on loose sheets of paper of Tours and its surroundings he made on that journey, see the Introduction to this section.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.23–4, 115.
Technical Notes:
The sheet is attached to D34677 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 242) along the top edge and D34679 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 244) along the bottom edge.
Verso:
Blank

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cinq Mars-le-Pile, Loire Valley 1826 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-cinq-mars-le-pile-loire-valley-r1185614, accessed 10 May 2024.