J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Copenhagen to Dresden Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Paintings in the Dresden Picture Gallery: Claude Lorrain, 'Landscape with the Flight into Egypt'; Claude Lorrain, 'Landscape with Acis and Galatea'; Jacob Backer, 'David Giving Uriah the Letter'; Jacob van Ruisdael, 'The Hunt' 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Paintings in the Dresden Picture Gallery: Claude Lorrain, 'Landscape with the Flight into Egypt'; Claude Lorrain, 'Landscape with Acis and Galatea'; Jacob Backer, 'David Giving Uriah the Letter'; Jacob van Ruisdael, 'The Hunt'’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto
Four Paintings in the Dresden Picture Gallery: Claude Lorrain, 'Landscape with the Flight into Egypt'; Claude Lorrain, 'Landscape with Acis and Galatea'; Jacob Backer, 'David Giving Uriah the Letter'; Jacob van Ruisdael, 'The Hunt' 1835
D31030
Turner Bequest CCCVII 6
Pencil on cream laid paper, 162 x 89 mm
Watermark double X mark and ‘cfw & s’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘D Red’, ‘[...]’, ‘Yell’, ‘Grey’, ‘Bright Lights’, ‘Rysdael’ centre towards rear (inverted relative to foliation)
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘6’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–6’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches of figures and landscapes are rough copies of four paintings Turner saw in the Dresden Picture Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister). The paintings are: Claude Lorrain (1600–82) Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (1647) and Landscape with Acis and Galatea (1657), Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608–51) David Giving Uriah the Letter (1650), and Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael (1628–82), The Hunt (1665–70). The artist has also inscribed brief colour notes ‘D Red’, ‘[...]’, ‘Yell[ow]’, ‘Grey’, ‘Bright Lights’ and ‘Rysdael’ in and around the sketches. See also Tate D31031–D31033; Turner Bequest CCCVII 6a–7a

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Four Paintings in the Dresden Picture Gallery: Claude Lorrain, 'Landscape with the Flight into Egypt'; Claude Lorrain, 'Landscape with Acis and Galatea'; Jacob Backer, 'David Giving Uriah the Letter'; Jacob van Ruisdael, 'The Hunt' 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-four-paintings-in-the-dresden-picture-gallery-claude-lorrain-r1186903, accessed 04 November 2025.