Gouache and watercolour on paper
Watercolours for ‘Wanderings by the Seine, from Rouen to the Source’ (‘Turner’s Annual Tour’)
Watercolours for ‘Wanderings by the Seine, from Rouen to the Source’ (‘Turner’s Annual Tour’)
Wanderings by the Seine (Rivers of France)  c.1832-3
Wanderings by the Seine (Rivers of France)  c.1832-3
France
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Turner’s Annual Tour: The Seine 1835 Watercolours
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Melun
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
boat, rowing
boat, steam
bridge
bridges and viaducts
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
dock
France
group
groups
man
Melun
natural features (non-UK)
natural phenomena
people
places
reflection
river
River Seine
sandbank
society
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
water: inland
woman
<p>Turner depicts the town of Melun as it might have been seen by travellers arriving from Paris by steamer. One of these boats is moored alongside the island in the middle distance, its chimney silhouetted against the glowing morning sky. Turner claimed to prefer to study the light of dawn rather than that of sunset because he was able to contemplate an effect for longer without it diminishing. As in the case of his Loire images, many of the Seine views, including this one, have been wrongly identified in the past as evocations of sunset.</p><p><em>Gallery label, June 1999</em></p>
paper unique gouache watercolour
30 March 2007 – 4 November 2007
2007-11-04
30 March 2007
2007-03-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-03-30
Colour and Line: Turner's Experiments 2
Collection based display
Melun
support: 140 × 191 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>Turner depicts the town of Melun as it might  have been seen by travellers arriving from Paris  by steamer. One of these boats is moored  alongside the island in the middle distance, its  chimney silhouetted against the glowing  morning sky. Turner claimed to prefer to study  the light of dawn rather than that of sunset  because he was able to contemplate an effect for  longer without it diminishing. As in the case of  his Loire images, many of the Seine views,  including this one, have been wrongly identified  in the past as evocations of sunset.</p>
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adults architecture boat, rowing boat, steam bridge bridges and viaducts cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents dock France group groups man Melun natural features (non-UK) natural phenomena people places reflection river River Seine sandbank society townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water water: inland woman
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