Joseph Mallord William Turner The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent at Eu 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent at Eu 1845
D35451
Turner Bequest CCCLIX 16
Turner Bequest CCCLIX 16
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 232 x 328 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...] | E Profil [...]’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...] | E Profil [...]’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards 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 (277, as ‘Eu Cathedral’).
1933
English Art, British Museum, London, January–December 1933 (no catalogue, 361).
1936
[Display of Watercolours], National Gallery, London, November 1936–September 1939 (no catalogue, 4).
1963
Turner Watercolors from The British Museum: A Loan Exhibition Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, September–October 1963, Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Texas, November 1963, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, December 1963–January 1964, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, January–March 1964, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, March–April 1964, Brooklyn Museum, New York, May 1964, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June–July 1964 (78, reproduced).
1968
Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760–1860, Detroit Institute of Arts, January–February 1968, Philadelphia Museum of Art, March–April 1968 (122, reproduced).
1969
Dve století britského malírství od Hogartha k Turnerovi, British Council tour, Národní Galérie, Prague, May–June 1969, Slovenská Národná Galérie, Bratislava, July–August 1969, [?Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, September–October 1969] (142).
1970
Turner: Watercolours Lent by the British Museum, Musée Provisoire d’Art Moderne, Brussels, November 1970–January 1971 (86).
1972
Das Aquarell 1400–1950, Haus der Kunst, Munich, October 1972–January 1973 (156).
1974
Turner 1775–1851, Royal Academy, London, November 1974–March 1975 (629).
1975
Turner 1775–1851: zhivopis', risunok, akvarel', Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, October–November 1975, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, December 1975–January 1976 (85).
1976
William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May–July 1976 (133).
1988
Turner & Architecture, Tate Gallery, London, March–July 1988 (50).
1993
The Great Age of British Watercolours, 1750–1880, Royal Academy of Arts, London, January–April 1993, National Gallery of Art, Washington, May–July 1993 (306).
1995
Through Switzerland with Turner: Ruskin’s First Selection from the Turner Bequest, Tate Gallery, London, February–May 1995 (5, reproduced).
2007
J.M.W. Turner, National Gallery of Art, Washington, October 2007–January 2008, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, February–May 2008, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June–September 2008 (162, reproduced).
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, p.623 no.277, as ‘Eu Cathedral’.
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.1169, CCCLIX 16, as ‘Eu Cathedral’.
1988
Ian Warrell and Diane Perkins, Turner & Architecture, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.20 under no.50.
1995
Ian Warrell, Through Switzerland with Turner: Ruskin’s First Selection from the Turner Bequest, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1995, p.39 under no.5, reproduced, 40.
2007
Ian Warrell (ed.), Franklin Kelly and others, J.M.W. Turner, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington 2007, p.223 under no.162, reproduced.
This much exhibited view of Eu’s medieval collégiale, or ‘collegiate church’, of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent is taken from the little ‘irregular market-place’ to the south-east of the edifice, the steep incline of which contributes to the impression of towering height.1 Ian Warrell traces the use of a low viewpoint in this sketch to the Turner’s training in the studio of the topographical and architectural artist, Thomas Malton (1748–1804).2 To the left of the church, liquid blue washes have swamped the pencil drawing of the Château d’Eu, the summer palace of King Louis-Philippe, whose possible connection with the trip is laid out in the tour Introduction.
A market scene is drawn on the verso of this sheet (D40172).
John Chu
February 2014
How to cite
John Chu, ‘The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent at Eu 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www