Oil paint on mahogany
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
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Christ Driving Traders Temple
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
actions: processes and functions
adults
altar
anger
architecture
basket
Bible: New Testament
carrying / holding
Christ
Christ and the money changers
clothing and personal items
column
crowd
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
features
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hat
interiors
man
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people
religion and belief
religious
religious and ceremonial
temple
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vessels and containers
woman
work and occupations
<p>During the 1830s, Turner took up religious themes which reflected his study of earlier painters such as Rembrandt. Such subjects required him to confront the challenge of painting figures, which he admitted 'are not my style'. Not surprisingly, he made some false starts, and this is probably a picture which was abandoned as unsatisfactory while still in progress, rather than a separate sketch or study. It was probably begun as a companion New Testament subject to his Old Testament Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego (in Tate Collection) exhibited in 1832. It is painted on an identical mahogany panel from the same supplier.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint mahogany
18 June 2001 – 14 July 2002
2002-07-14
18 June 2001 – 14 July 2002
2002-07-14
2001-06-18
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-06-18
From Studio to Gallery: Sketches in the Turner Bequest
Collection based display
16 November 2008 – 7 June 2009
2009-06-07
23 November 2008 – 22 February 2009
2009-02-22
2008-11-23
Palazzo dei Diamanti (Ferrara, Italy)
23 March 2009 – 7 June 2009
2009-06-07
2009-03-23
National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh, UK)
15 July 2009 – 25 October 2009
2009-10-25
2009-07-15
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum (Budapest, Hungary)
http://www.szepmuveszeti.hu/
2008-11-16
Turner and Italy
Loan-out
Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple
support: 921 × 705 mm
frame: 1145 × 940 × 110 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>During the 1830s, Turner took up religious  themes which reflected his study of earlier  painters such as Rembrandt. Such subjects required him to confront the challenge of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> figures, which he admitted 'are not my style'. Not surprisingly, he made some false starts, and this  is probably a picture which was abandoned  as unsatisfactory while still in progress, rather  than a separate sketch or study. It was probably begun as a companion New Testament subject  to his Old Testament Shadrach, Meshech  and Abednego (in Tate Collection) exhibited  in 1832. It is painted on an identical mahogany <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panel</span></a> from the same supplier.</p>
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<p><b>436. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-christ-driving-the-traders-from-the-temple-n05474" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05474</span></a>]<b> Christ driving the Traders from the Temple</b>
<i>c.</i> 1832</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5474)</p>
<p>Mahogany, 36 1/4 × 27 3/4 (92 × 70·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (153, one of ‘3 each (ditto [panel])’ 3'0" × 2'3"; identified by chalk number on back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 157, 188 n. 16; Wilton 1979, p. 210.</p>
<p>Similar in style, though unfinished, to <i>Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego</i>
(No. 346 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-shadrach-meshach-and-abednego-in-the-burning-fiery-furnace-n00517" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00517</span></a>]) which was exhibited in 1832, and painted on an identically labelled prepared <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panel</span></a> by R. Davy. This may well have been intended as a complementary New Testament scene. The picture over the altar shows the parallel text of Moses breaking the Tables of the Law. Davies, pointing out that the architectural setting is very Romish, suggests that the picture reflects Turner's Anti-Catholicism.</p>
<p>The dark splash to the right of centre and other spots elsewhere, only partly removable during restoration treatment in 1975, seem to be the result of an accident in Turner's studio and may account for his abandoning the picture.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
<br/></p>

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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: processes and functions adults altar anger architecture basket Bible: New Testament carrying / holding Christ Christ and the money changers clothing and personal items column crowd emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas features groups hat interiors man objects people religion and belief religious religious and ceremonial temple trader trading and commercial vessels and containers woman work and occupations