Watercolour, gouache and pen and watercolour on paper
Loose Studies of Northern France
Loose Studies of Northern France
Northern France c.1826-32
Northern France c.1826-32
France
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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FoliesSiffait and Oudon Loire Valley
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
boat - non-specific
boat, barge
castle
Cellier, Le, Folies-Siffait
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
features
France
hill
landscape
military
military
natural features (non-UK)
Oudon
places
river
River Loire
ruins
society
tower
transport: water
water: inland
<p>Close to the small town of Oudon Turner came across an apparently ruined ancient fortress. In fact, the towers and terraces he recorded had been created only very recently by a man called Maximilien Siffait, who was an entrepreneur involved in establishing a steamboat service on the river at Nantes. He began work on the riverside follies as a means of employing local labourers, many of whom had been left without work during a period of agricultural hardship. It is estimated he spent 200,000 francs on his follies as a means of keeping fifty families employed. Despite the obscurity of this location, one of Turner's colour sketches proved to be the only Loire scene he developed as an oil painting.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour gouache pen
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
Folies-Siffait and Oudon, Loire Valley
support: 143 × 193 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>Close to the small town of Oudon Turner came  across an apparently ruined ancient fortress. In  fact, the towers and terraces he recorded had been  created only very recently by a man called  Maximilien Siffait, who was an entrepreneur  involved in establishing a steamboat service on  the river at Nantes. He began work on the  riverside follies as a means of employing local  labourers, many of whom had been left without work  during a period of agricultural hardship. It is  estimated he spent 200,000 francs on his follies  as a means of keeping fifty families employed.  Despite the obscurity of this location, one of  Turner's colour sketches proved to be the only  Loire scene he developed as an oil <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>.</p>
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architecture boat, barge boat - non-specific castle Cellier, Le, Folies-Siffait cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents features France hill landscape military military natural features (non-UK) Oudon places river River Loire ruins society tower transport: water water: inland
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