Oil paint on canvas
France
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>
Banks Loire
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
building - non-specific
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
France
landscape
natural features (non-UK)
Oudon
places
river
River Loire
rocky
townscapes / man-made features
tree
water: inland
<p>Turner may have begun this small canvas in Italy in 1828 as a study for a larger painting, working from his recollections of his gouache study of the Folies-Siffait, a rather obscure site on the Loire near Oudon. He had received the commission for the finished picture (recently reidentified as ‘The Banks of the Loire’) from Sir Willoughby and Lady Julia Gordon, who specifically requested an upright composition (an unusual format for Turner) to complement the two small pictures they already owned by the artist.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 August 2009 – 19 July 2010
2010-07-19
5 August 2009 – 19 July 2010
2010-07-19
2009-08-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-08-05
Turner Abroad
Collection based display
Sketch for ‘The Banks of the Loire’
support: 489 × 403 mm
frame: 570 × 485 × 55 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 may have begun this small canvas in Italy in 1828 as a study for a larger painting, working from his recollections of his gouache study of the Folies-Siffait, a rather obscure site on the Loire near Oudon.  He had received the commission for the finished picture (recently reidentified as ‘The Banks of the Loire’) from Sir Willoughby and Lady Julia Gordon, who specifically requested an upright composition (an unusual format for Turner) to complement the two small pictures they already owned by the artist.
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2010-02-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>281. </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-sketch-for-the-banks-of-the-loire-n05484" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05484</span></a>]<b> Landscape with a Castle on a Promontory</b> <i>c.</i>
1820–30?</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5484)</p>
<p>Canvas, 19 1/4 × 15 7/8 (49 × 40·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (? 270*, I unidentified 1'7" × 1'4"; see below); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 158–9, 190 n. 26.</p>
<p>Probably, in view of its unusual dimensions, the work originally listed as 270 in the 1854 Schedule, but renumbered 270* in the margin and in the second, 1856, Schedule. For the reason the number was changed see No. 529 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-seaport-in-the-grand-style-n05544" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05544</span></a>].</p>
<p>This is a particularly fragmentary and unresolved <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 foreground tree, either unfinished or in the course of alteration, and a castle on a promontory projecting into a wide expanse of water beyond. Though the style and handling are completely typical of Turner, it is difficult to relate this to any other work, or to date it save very generally in the middle of Turner's career.</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
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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architecture building - non-specific cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents France landscape natural features (non-UK) Oudon places river River Loire rocky townscapes / man-made features tree water: inland