Landscape with a River - Joseph Mallord William Turner


Landscape with a river in the distance and bay, 1835, William Turner. Louvre Museum

Painter of Light

His watercolors

Before 1750, maritime areas hardly attracted other than sailors; Then a process of familiarization to which the success of the great over-land voyages and the development of West European merchant navies contribute.

A growing number of doctors prescribe a stay at the sea for its salty air and cold baths.

The sea attracts romantics, melancholics and all "those who, for fear of the miasma, come to rub shoulders with the foam".

This new attraction is reflected in 19th century painting. The observer likes to let his eye wander, get lost in these infinite expanses that no visual limit limits.

William Turner's painting evokes a desire to escape. Its simple palette animates with shimmers and vibrations an amphibious landscape where the earth, the sea and the sky, indistinct surfaces, interpenetrate within a deliberately unstructured composition. Meanders, wet sand, spray, mist and vapors erase the boundaries between the three elements. This romantic shore invites reverie, even melancholy.

JMWT - Tate Curator on his watercolors (38 min)


Distant View of Regensburg from the Dreifaltigkeitsberg 1840 Joseph Mallord William Turner

Off Margate, JMWT, 1840, National Museum of Wales


The Red Rigi, JMWT, 1842, National Gallery of Victoria

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