Tancarville, Normandy: an avenue of poplars

Details

After Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851)
Tancarville, Normandy: an avenue of poplars
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on buff paper
5 3/8 x 7 1/8 in. (13.6 x 18.2. cm)

Provenance

L.G. Duke; Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1971, lot 154 as by J.M.W. Turner (£3,700 to Agnew's).
with Agnew's, London.
Dr. Theodore Besterman; Christie's, London, 14 December 1971, lot 101 as by J.M.W. Turner (3,500 gns to Agnew's).
with Agnew's, London, where purchased by
J. Barningham, 3 January 1972 as by J.M.W. Turner.

Literature

I. Warrell, Turner on the Seine, London, 1999, p. 270, under no. 81.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

The present drawing is after a watercolour in the Turner Bequest (D24737), executed c. 1832 during Turner's journey along the Seine for his 1834 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France). Turner made five colour studies in bodycolour of Tancarville, of which four share the limited palette, loose application of paint, and rising sun seen here.

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