Gouache, graphite and watercolour on paper
Venice: Interiors and Figure Scenes
Venice: Interiors and Figure Scenes
Venice, Austria and Southern Germany 1840
Venice, Austria and Southern Germany 1840
Sussex, West
Sussex - non-specific
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
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>
Three Figures in a Darkened Room Perhaps in Venice
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
domestic
dressing / undressing
England
England, South East
England, Southern
group
groups
interior - non-specific
interiors
looking / watching
man
natural phenomena
people
Petworth, Petworth House
places
shadow
sitting
standing
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, West
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
woman
<p>Turner often stayed at Petworth, the house in Sussex belonging to his patron the Earl of Egremont. He had free run of its art collections and was given the Old Library to use as a studio. Life at Petworth was grand and bohemian. Working for himself rather than his patron, Turner made a series of small studies in gouache on blue or tinted paper recording the rooms, their furnishings and the unconventional social life that filled them. In studies like this, made at night, by artificial light or behind drawn curtains, these gatherings seem intimate, mysterious and fluid.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2013</em></p>
paper unique gouache graphite watercolour
20 March 2009 – 3 August 2009
2009-08-03
20 March 2009 – 3 August 2009
2009-08-03
2009-03-20
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-03-20
The Space Inside: Turner's Interiors
Collection based display
9 July 2022 – 31 October 2022
2022-10-31
9 July 2022 – 31 October 2022
2022-10-31
2022-07-09
Turner’s House (Twickenham, UK)
2022-07-09
Behind Closed Doors
Loan-out
Three Figures in a Darkened Room, Perhaps in Venice
support: 131 × 227 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
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<p>Turner often stayed at Petworth, the house in Sussex belonging to his patron the Earl of Egremont. He had free run of its art collections and was given the Old Library to use as a studio. Life at Petworth was grand and bohemian. Working for himself rather than his patron, Turner made a series of small studies in gouache on blue or tinted paper recording the rooms, their furnishings and the unconventional social life that filled them. In studies like this, made at night, by artificial light or behind drawn curtains, these gatherings seem intimate, mysterious and fluid.</p>
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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults domestic dressing / undressing England England, South East England, Southern group groups interior - non-specific interiors looking / watching man natural phenomena people Petworth, Petworth House places shadow sitting standing Sussex - non-specific Sussex, West UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions woman
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