Saumur from the Île d'Offart, with the Pont Cessart and the Château in the Distance

c. 1830

Medium	watercolor and gouache with pen and black and brown ink over traces of graphite on blue wove paper
Dimensions	Sheet: 5 x 7 9/16 in. (12.7 x 19.2 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.112
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Saumur from the Île d'Offart, with the Pont Cessart and the Château in the Distance, c. 1830, watercolor and gouache with pen and black and brown ink over traces of graphite on blue wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.112

Select Bibliography

Organizers of the Art Terasures Exhibition.Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom. Collected in Manchester in 1857. Whitefriars, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.
Spink-Leger. Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. London: Spink-Leger Pictures, 1997. Warrell, Ian. Turner on the Loire. The Tate Gallery, London, September 30, 1997-February 15, 1998; Musée du Château des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, June 13-September 14, 1998. London: Tate Publishing. 1997. Wilton, Andrew. William Turner: Licht und Farbe. Köln: DuMont; Essen: Museum Folkwang, 2001. Wilton, Andrew. Turner, Girtin and Bonington: A New York Private Collection, Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings. New York: Privately Published, 2001. Mauclair, Camille. Turner. Paris: Hyperion, 1938. Wilton, Andrew. J. M. W. Turner, His Art and Life. New York: Rizzoli, 1979. Rawlinson, W.G. The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. 2 vols. London: MacMillan & Co., 1913. Herrmann, Luke. Turner Prints: The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner. New York: New York University Press, 1990. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

[Thomas Griffith, sale, 31 May 1850 as part of a group of 24 Loire subjects for 600 guineas, sold to Stokes]; Charles Stokes (1850–d. 1853); Lewis Loyd, Esq. (by 1857); Captain E. N. F. Loyd, sale, Christie’s, London, 30 Apr. 1937, no. 68, sold to MacConnell; Rayner MacConnell (in 1937, sold to Fattorini); T. Edward Fattorini (1937–1966, sale, Sotheby’s, London, 13 July 1966, no. 47, sold to Lusk); A. R. Lusk (1966–1981, sold to Agnew’s); [Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, in 1981]; John Madden, Colorado, sold to Agnew’s, 1991; [Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London]; [Spink-Leger Pictures, 1996–1997, no. K3 11266, sold to Manton, Feb. 1997]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1997–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.