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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Marseilles to Genoa Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Cap d'Antibes, with the Phare de la Garoupe 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Cap d'Antibes, with the Phare de la Garoupe’ 1828
Folio 5 Verso:
The Cap d’Antibes, with the Phare de la Garoupe 1828
D21142
Turner Bequest CCXXXI 5a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 174 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The geographer and Turner researcher Roland Courtot has identified the subject of this sketch, drawn with the page turned horizontally, as a view of the Cap d’Antibes.1 Many similar sketches of the coastline were drawn from a boat on the sea. However, the hastily sketched form in the foreground here appears to indicate that Turner was standing on the shore of the Garoupe beach looking across north-west towards the other side of the bay, with the Phare de la Garoupe (the Garopue lighthouse), built 1836–7, and the Chapelle de la Notre-Dame de la Garde visible on the high ground of the plateau.
Related views can be found on folios 4 recto and 6 recto (D21139, D21143).

Nicola Moorby
March 2017

Revised by Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
Roland Courtot, ‘Les Carnets de William Turner: Recherches d’identification et de localisation des dessins’, unpublished research notes, Université de Provence à Aix, April 2008, p.3, as ‘Antibes’ (shared with former Tate cataloguer Nicola Moorby in email correspondence at that date).

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Cap d’Antibes, with the Phare de la Garoupe 1828’, catalogue entry, March 2017, revised by Hannah Kaspar, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/the-cap-dantibes-with-the-phare-de-la-garoupe-r1209820, accessed 16 April 2025.