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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Givet, Mézières, Verdun, Metz, Luxemburg ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner St Michael's Church, the Pont du Château and Bock, Luxembourg, Looking North-Eastwards along the Valley of the Alzette 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Michael's Church, the Pont du Château and Bock, Luxembourg, Looking North-Eastwards along the Valley of the Alzette’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
St Michael’s Church, the Pont du Château and Bock, Luxembourg, Looking North-Eastwards along the Valley of the Alzette 1839
D28274
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 60 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 101 x 168 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with agile line, this study of Luxembourg was taken from a vantage point looking along the Alzette river valley. It incorporates St Michael’s Church at top left; the eighteenth-century two-storey Pont du Château, which connects the old town with the fortified Rocher du Bock at centre; and finally the castle with the French military engineer Vauban’s towers. This sketch and those on folio 32 verso and 33 recto (Tate D28228–D28229; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVIII 32a–33) contributed to a gouache, pen and ink and watercolour drawing on blue paper of the Pont du Château and the Bock (Tate D20249; Turner Bequest CCXXI P).
At top right Turner has made a small sketch of a rocky gradient and building.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘St Michael’s Church, the Pont du Château and Bock, Luxembourg, Looking North-Eastwards along the Valley of the Alzette 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-st-michaels-church-the-pont-du-chateau-and-bock-luxembourg-r1150551, accessed 24 November 2024.