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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Chapelle of Saint-Hospice on Cap Ferrat 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Chapelle of Saint-Hospice on Cap Ferrat’ 1828
Folio 10 Recto:
Distant View of Chapelle of Saint-Hospice on Cap Ferrat 1828
D21151
Turner Bequest CCXXXI 10
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 174 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘St [?Hospic]’ towards bottom left
Inscribed in red ink ‘10’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXI 10’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, with the page turned horizontally, has been identified by geographer and Turner researcher Maurice Guillaud as a view of the seventeenth-century Chapelle of Saint-Hospice on the peninsula of Cap Ferrat between Nice and Villefranche-sur-Mer.1 The prospect has been taken from the coastline to the north, and Maurice Guillaud believed that the artist’s viewpoint was a location near the Baie des Fourmis (Bay of Ants) near Beaulieu-sur-Mer.2

Nicola Moorby
March 2017

Revised by Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
See Roland Courtot, ‘Les Carnets de William Turner: Recherches d’identification et de localisation des dessins’, unpublished research notes, Université de Provence à Aix, April 2008, p.3, as ‘Nice’ (shared with former Tate cataloguer Nicola Moorby in email correspondence at that date).
2
Guillaud, Alfrey, Wilton and others 1981, p.286.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Distant View of Chapelle of Saint-Hospice on Cap Ferrat 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/distant-view-of-chapelle-of-saint-hospice-on-cap-ferrat-r1209829, accessed 15 April 2025.