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 Three Paintings in the Dresden Picture Gallery: Aert de Gelder, 'Christ before Pilate'; Raphael, 'The Sistine Madonna'; Correggio, 'The Penitent Magdalene Reading', and a Detail of Flowers in its Foreground 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Paintings in the Dresden Picture Gallery: Aert de Gelder, 'Christ before Pilate'; Raphael, 'The Sistine Madonna'; Correggio, 'The Penitent Magdalene Reading', and a Detail of Flowers in its Foreground’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso
Three Paintings in the Dresden Picture Gallery: Aert de Gelder, 'Christ before Pilate'; Raphael, 'The Sistine Madonna'; Correggio, 'The Penitent Magdalene Reading', and a Detail of Flowers in its Foreground 1835
D31033
Turner Bequest CCCVII 7 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 162 x 89 mm
Watermark double X mark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W’, ‘L Y’, ‘M’, ‘B’, ‘Madonna’, ‘Red’, ‘Green’, ‘Green’, ‘Or’, ‘Blue’ (around The Sistine Madonna)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered rough copies of three paintings at the Dresden Picture Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister). They are: Aert de Gelder (1645–1727) Christ before Pilate (1671), Raphael (1483–1520) The Sisteen Madonna (1512/13), Antonio da Correggio (1489–1534) The Penitent Magdalene Reading (missing since 1945). Colour notes are inscribed around The Sisteen Madonna: ‘W[hite]’, ‘L[ight] Y[ellow]’, ‘M’, ‘B[lue]’, ‘Madonna’, ‘Red’, ‘Green’, ‘Green’, ‘Or’, ‘Blue’. See other copies from the Dresden Picture Gallery on Tate D31030–D31032; Turner Bequest CCCVII 6–7.
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30296–D30303, D30896–D30900, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–7, CCCVI 6a–9, CCCVII 3–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Paintings in the Dresden Picture Gallery: Aert de Gelder, 'Christ before Pilate'; Raphael, 'The Sistine Madonna'; Correggio, 'The Penitent Magdalene Reading', and a Detail of Flowers in its Foreground 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-three-paintings-in-the-dresden-picture-gallery-aert-de-r1186906, accessed 17 July 2024.