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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Château de Clermont, Loire Valley c.1829-33

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Château de Clermont, Loire Valley’ c.1829-33
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Château de Clermont, Loire Valley c.1829–33
D36322
Turner Bequest CCCLXV b 31
Watercolour on white wove paper, 579 x 861 mm
Watermarked ‘J WHATMAN | TURKEY MILL | 1829’
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCCLXV. 31’ bottom left
Inscribed in faded red ink ‘CCCLXV. 31’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXV – 31’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This colour beginning of the prominence beside the River Loire upon which sits the Château de Clermont is worked onto a sheet of paper with an 1829 watermark. However it closely related to an earlier colour study on blue paper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford1 and is based upon pencil sketches in the Nantes, Angers and Saumur sketchbook (Tate D23170; Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 10a) which he collected on his 1826 tour of Northern France.
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.417 no.991.
Technical Notes:
The sheet is stained with grey marks round the edges and bears vertical crease marks down the centre where it has been folded.
Verso:
The sheet is inscribed in pencil with the initials of Turner’s executors, Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight. In ink, the initials of a third executor, Henry Scott Trimmer, are also inscribed alongside the note ‘138 X’. The sheet is stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and the number ‘CCCLXV – 31’.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Château de Clermont, Loire Valley c.1829–33 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-chateau-de-clermont-loire-valley-r1185624, accessed 20 April 2024.