View on the Seine between Mantes and Vernon (Rolleboise on the Road from Bonnieres) c.1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Caroline South

Joseph Mallord William Turner View on the Seine between Mantes and Vernon (Rolleboise on the Road from Bonnieres) c.1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

View on the Seine between Mantes and Vernon (Rolleboise on the Road from Bonnieres) c.1833

D24679
Turner Bequest CCLIX 114

Gouache and watercolour on blue paper, 143 x 194 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLIX – 114’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

1904

National Gallery, London, various dates to at least 1904 (138, as ‘Between Mantes and Vernon’).

1953

Le Paysage anglais de Gainsborough à Turner, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, February–April 1953 (80).

1953

Display of Watercolours from the Turner Bequest, Tate Gallery, London, January 1953–April 1959 (frame no.II:2b).

1963

J.M.W. Turner, Bridgestone Gallery, Tokyo, September–October 1963, Fine Arts Museum, Osaska, November (15b).

1964

Turner 1775–1851: Watercolours from the British Museum, London, Presented in Association with the British Council, City Hall Art Gallery, Hong Kong, January 1964 (15b).

1974

Turner 1775–1851, Royal Academy, London, November 1974–March 1975 (404).

1978

Търнър, Shipka Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, April[?–May] 1978, Belgrade, Serbia [former Yugoslavia], May, Muzeul de Arte al RS [Republica Socialista] Romania, Bucharest, June–July (48).

1981

Turner en France: aquarelles, peintures, dessins, gravures, carnets de croquis / Turner in France: Watercolours, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Sketchbooks, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, October 1981–January 1982 (139).

1981

J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) / ΤΖ.Μ.Γ. Τερνερ (1775–1851), National Pinakothiki, Athens, January–March 1981 (46).

1989

Turner and the Human Figure: Studies of Contemporary Life, Tate Gallery, London, April–July 1989 (47).

1995

Peindre le ciel: De Turner à Monet, Musée-Promenade, Marly-le-Roi / Louvecienes, April–July 1995 (12).

1999

Turner on the Seine, Tate Gallery, London, June–October 1999, Pavillon des Arts, Paris, October 1999–January 2000, Musée Malraux, Le Havre, March–June (137).

2004

TurnerWhistlerMonet, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, June–September 2004, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, October–January 2005, Tate Britain, London, February–May (12).

References

1904

E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn eds., Library Edition: The Works of John Ruskin: Volume XIII: Turner: The Harbours of England; Catalogues and Notes, London 1904, pp.387, 613–14 no.138, as ‘Between Mantes and Vernon’.

1909

A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.795, CCLIX 114, as ‘Between Mantes and Vernon’.

1913

W[illiam] G[eorge] Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., vol.II, London 1913, p.272 under no.477.

1953

Anthony Blunt, Le Paysage anglais de Gainsborough à Turner, exhibition catalogue, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris 1953, p.[30] no.80.

1963

Basil Gray, Edward Croft-Murray and Martin Butlin, J.M.W. Turner, exhibition catalogue, Bridgestone Gallery, Tokyo 1963, p.16 no.15b, reproduced.

1964

Basil Gray, Edward Croft-Murray and Martin Butlin, Turner 1775–1851: An Exhibition of Watercolours from the British Museum London, Presented in Association with the British Council, exhibition catalogue, City Hall Art Gallery, Hong Kong 1964, p.13 no.15b.

1829

Martin Butlin, Andrew Wilton and John Gage, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy, London 1974, p.119 no.404, as ‘View of the Seine between Mantes and Vernon c.1829’.

1978

Timothy Clifford, Търнър, exhibition catalogue, Shipka Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria 1978, p.[30] no.48, reproduced.

1832

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.415 no.975, reproduced as ‘View of the Seine between Mantes and Vernon c.1832’.

1981

Dimitrios Papastamos, John Gage and Lindsay Stainton, J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) / ΤΖ.Μ.Γ. Τερνερ (1775–1851), exhibition catalogue, National Pinakothiki, Athens 1981, pp.124, [126] no.46, reproduced.

1981

Maurice Guillaud, Nicholas Alfrey, Andrew Wilton and others, Turner en France: aquarelles, peintures, dessins, gravures, carnets de croquis / Turner in France: Watercolours, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Sketchbooks, exhibition catalogue, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris 1981, no.139, p.448, fig.907.

1989

Ann Chumbley and Ian Warrell, Turner and the Human Figure: Studies of Contemporary Life, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1989, p.22 no.47, reproduced.

1990

Luke Herrmann, Turner Prints: The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 1990, p.177, fig.141.

1995

Christine Kayser, David Brown, Richard Hearn and others, Peindre le ciel: De Turner à Monet, exhibition catalogue, Musée-Promenade, Marly-le-Roi / Louvecienes 1995, p.34, fig.12.

1999

Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.25, 39, 70, 80, 191, 204, 276 no.137, fig.190 (colour).

2004

Katharine Lochnan, Luce Abélès, John House and others, TurnerWhistlerMonet, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 2004, pp.88–9 no.12, reproduced (colour).

2004

Olivier Meslay, Turner: L’Incendie de la peinture, Découvertes Gallimard Arts, [Paris] 2004, p.86, reproduced.

2005

Olivier Meslay, J.M.W. Turner: The Man Who Set Painting on Fire, trans. Ruth Sharman, London 2005, p.86 reproduced.

Engraved:
By Robert Brandard in 1834, published in 1835.

In this watercolour, Turner depicts a route along the River Seine, between the towns of Mantes 1 and Vernon, and further specified as the town of Bonnières,2 in northern France. With his skilful use of perspective, the road stretches back into the distance, lined with white buildings along the right and trees and water on the left. Sunlight is portrayed shining from the left. Its rays create a subtle sheen on the water, stream through the trees to form long shadows on the road, highlight the edges of the picnic table and women’s dresses, and hit the buildings on the right. The scene is one of quiet enjoyment; on a sunny day, carriages ramble and people in fine white dresses and black suits walk along the avenue, others at left bring provisions from stalls for a picnic table.

There does not appear to be an identifiable preliminary sketch.

An engraving was made of this watercolour by Robert Brandard in 1834 as View on the Seine between Mantes and Vernon (Tate impressions T05614 and T06249) for the volume Wanderings by the Seine of 1835.3The reflection of the sun in the water at left is highlighted in the engraving.

There are related inscriptions on the verso (D40110).

Caroline South
November 2017

Either Mantes-la-Jolie or neighbouring Mantes-la-Ville.

Warrell 1999, p.276.

Leitch Ritchie, Wanderings by the Seine, London, Paris and Berlin 1835, opposite p.96.

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘View on the Seine between Mantes and Vernon (Rolleboise on the Road from Bonnieres) c.1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-on-the-seine-between-mantes-and-vernon-rolleboise-on-r1195814, accessed 30 June 2024.

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View on the Seine between Mantes and Vernon (Rolleboise on the Road from Bonnieres) c.1833

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