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 > Spa, Dinant and Namur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Church of Notre-Dame, Huy, and the Bridge over the Meuse, Looking Downstream from the North Bank 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church of Notre-Dame, Huy, and the Bridge over the Meuse, Looking Downstream from the North Bank’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
The Church of Notre-Dame, Huy, and the Bridge over the Meuse, Looking Downstream from the North Bank 1839
D28051
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 5 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 94 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this relatively detailed sketch Turner depicts Huy’s Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame with an array of local buildings surrounding it. The Rayonnant rose window in the façade of the larger of the towers is suggested summarily as well as is its pointed arched windows. The view is taken from the north bank of the Meuse and includes the bridge, colloquially known in the Huy dialect as Li Pontia.
For other views of Huy in this sketchbook see Tate D28043, D28053, D28057, D28067, D28096, D28131–D28137, D28139–D28143, D28147, D28149; Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 1a, 6a, 8a, 13a, 28a, 47a–50a, 51a–53a, 56a, 57a. There are also a number of colour sketches in gouache with watercolour and pen and ink produced on blue paper dated around 1839 (Tate D20221, D20222, D20226, D20268, D20288; Turner Bequest CCXX N, O, S; CCXXII I, CCXXIII C).
For earlier views of Huy see the 1824 Huy and Dinant sketchbook (Tate D20087–D20093, D20109–D20110; Turner Bequest CCXVII 2a–6a, 16–7); the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of the same date (Tate D19622–D19635; Turner Bequest CCXVI 36–43) and the Brussels up to Mannheim sketchbook of 1833 (Tate D29653, D29656–D29659, D29661–D29662, D29768, D29771; Turner Bequest 29, 30a–32, 33–33a, 90, 91a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Church of Notre-Dame, Huy, and the Bridge over the Meuse, Looking Downstream from the North Bank 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-the-church-of-notre-dame-huy-and-the-bridge-over-the-meuse-r1150325, accessed 25 November 2024.