ID 818758 
Lot 114  | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000 
The Confluence of the Seine and the Marne at Charenton, France
inscribed and numbered in red on the reverse '8/Junction of Seine and Marne/at Charenton'
watercolor and bodycolor on blue paper
5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (13.6 x 18.5 cm.)
Provenance
Commissioned by Charles Heath, sold by Order of the Court of Chancery; Christie's 22 May 1852, lot 57 (40 gns to Lambe).
Mr Lambe.
Robert Hanbury; Christie's 13 May 1884, lot 132 (26 gns to Walford).
C.E. Hughes and by descent to
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 11 July 1995, lot 33.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.
Literature
L. Ritchie, Wanderings by the Seine (vol.2): Turner’s Annual Tour, 1835, p. 212.
J. Ruskin, Modern Painters, I, 1843 (reprinted in Cook & Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, III, p. 548).
Sir W. Armstrong, Turner, 1902, p. 277.
W.G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., II, 1913, p. 275, no. 490.
A. Graves, Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century, 1921, III, p. 239.
L. Herrmann, Turner Prints: The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, 1990, p. 179.
A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, 1979, pp. 416-7, no. 988.
W.S. Rodner, J.M.W. Turner. Romantic Painter of the Industrial Revolution, University of California Press, 1997, pp. 42-4, fig. 14.
I. Warrell, Turner on the Seine, 1999, pp. 248, 278; reproduced p. 247, fig. 250.
Professor A. Lambert, unpublished lecture at Turner and the Sea conference, 22 March 2014.
Exhibited
London, Tate Gallery, Paris, Pavilion des Arts, and Le Havre, Musée des Beaux Arts, Turner on the Seine, 29 June 1999 - 12 June 2000, no. 150.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Luminous Worlds: British Works on Paper 1780-1900, 11 July - 29 November 2015, unnumbered.
| Artist: | Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) | 
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor | 
| Genre: | Marine art | 
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom | 
| Artist: | Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) | 
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor | 
| Genre: | Marine art | 
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom | 
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