Oil paint on canvas
Italy
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<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>
Landscape Christ and Woman Samaria
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
Bible: New Testament
Christ
Christ and the Woman of Samaria
countries and continents
figure
goat
hill
Italy
John, chapter 4
landscape
people
places
religion and belief
river
rocky
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
tree
valley
water: inland
well
painting oil paint canvas
13 February 2009 – 30 October 2010
2010-10-30
13 February 2009 – 30 October 2010
2010-10-30
2009-02-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-02-13
Visionary Landscapes
Collection based display
Landscape: Christ and the Woman of Samaria
support: 1473 × 2388 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><b>433. </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-landscape-christ-and-the-woman-of-samaria-n01875" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01875</span></a>]<b> Landscape: Christ and the Woman of Samaria</b>
<i>c.</i> 1830</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (1875)</p>
<p>Canvas, 57 1/4 × 93 1/2 (145·5 × 237·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (? 251, ‘1 (Scriptural subject)’ 7'10" × 4'10"); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1910.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> On loan to the National Museum of Wales 1964–74; R.A. 1974–5 (486).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Armstrong 1902, p. 224; MacColl 1920, p. 28.</p>
<p>A large Italianate <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> of the kind exhibited by Turner from <i>Bay of Baiae</i> (No. 230 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-bay-of-baiae-with-apollo-and-the-sibyl-n00505" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00505</span></a>]) onwards, but here perhaps not carried quite to the degree of finish he deemed necessary for an exhibited work of this character. It is probably the ‘Scriptural subject’ listed as no. 251 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-second-sketch-for-the-battle-of-trafalgar-n00556" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00556</span></a>] in the Schedule of the Turner Bequest and seems to show Christ and the Woman of Samaria by Jacob's well (<i>John</i> iv, 6–7), set in a landscape with an Italian hill-town similar to but not the same as Tivoli (see No. 311 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-tivoli-the-cascatelle-n03388" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03388</span></a>]). The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>, with a hill-town on the left and an avenue of trees on the right, is particularly close to <i>Palestrina</i>, begun in Rome in 1828 and exhibited at the R.A. in 1830 (No. 295 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-palestrina-composition-n06283" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N06283</span></a>]).</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
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-23T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults animals: mammals architecture Bible: New Testament Christ Christ and the Woman of Samaria countries and continents figure goat hill Italy John, chapter 4 landscape people places religion and belief river rocky townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features tree valley water: inland well