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Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Title:
Port Ruysdael [1827, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
Date:
between 1826 and 1827
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 1/4 x 48 1/4 inches (92.1 x 122.6 cm), Frame: 44 3/8 × 58 1/2 × 2 3/4 inches (112.7 × 148.6 × 7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.80
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
baskets | clouds | fish | ladder | marine art | meteorology | port | sailboat | science | seascape | sloop (sailing vessel) | storm | wall | waves (natural events)
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:422
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Although remembered as a landscape painter, J. M. W. Turner was above all else a painter of the sea, especially in the 1830s and 1840s, when he explored the sea’s more threatening moods. Contemplating this picture, John Ruskin, Turner’s greatest interpreter and champion, remarked: “I know of no work at all comparable for the expression of the white, wild, cold, comfortless waves of the northern sea, even though the sea is almost subordinate to the awful rolling clouds.” Port Ruysdael was a title Turner invented as an homage to the Dutch seventeenth-century painter Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/9–1682). The composition was inspired by several marine paintings by Ruisdael, including one in the Louvre that Turner saw on a visit to Paris in 1802. Turner exhibited Port Ruysdael at the Royal Academy in 1827, but it did not sell until Elhanan Bicknell acquired it in 1844, along with Turner’s Wreckers (shown nearby).

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016

Unto This Last (Watts Gallery) (Watts Gallery Trust, 2020-03-10 - 2020-11-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Turner and the Sea (The Peabody Essex Museum, 2014-05-31 - 2014-09-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Turner and the Sea (National Maritime Museum, 2013-11-22 - 2014-04-21) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Turner and the Masters (Museo del Prado, 2010-06-21 - 2010-09-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Turner and the Masters (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2010-02-22 - 2010-05-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Turner and the Masters (Tate Britain, 2009-09-21 - 2010-01-24) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Turner : The Late Seascapes (Burrell Collection, 2004-02-15 - 2004-05-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Turner : The Late Seascapes (Manchester City Galleries, 2003-11-01 - 2004-01-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Turner : The Late Seascapes (Clark Art Institute, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-08) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Turner 1996 (National Gallery of Victoria, 1996-06-23 - 1996-09-09) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Turner 1996 (National Gallery of Australia, 1996-03-17 - 1996-06-10) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Mie Prefectural Art Museum, 1993-04-10 - 1993-05-09) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Daimaru Museum of Art, 1993-03-10 - 1993-03-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Hiroshima Museum of Art, 1993-01-23 - 1993-03-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Koriyama City Museum of Art, 1992-11-21 - 1993-01-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Ohita Prefectural Art Hall, 1992-10-24 - 1992-11-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

British Landscape Exhibition (Japan) (Isetan Museum of Art, 1992-09-17 - 1992-10-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Montreal Collections 1880 - 1920 (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1989-12-15 - 1990-02-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

J. M. W. Turner - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1968-10-31 - 1969-04-21) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Christopher Baker, Turner and the Masters, London, Paris and Madrid , Burlington Magazine, vol. 151,, December 2009, p. 853-4, fig. 35, N1 B87 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

John Baskett, Painting in England: 1700-1850: the Collection of English paintings formed by Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon : on Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, until August 18th, , Connoisseur, Vol. 153, London, June 1963, p. 103, N1 C75 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Martin Butlin, The paintings of J.M.W. Turner, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1984, pp. 145-46, 192, No. 237, pl. 242, NJ18 T85 B885 1984 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Loan exhibition of English painting, of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , June 6th - July 9th 1933, p. 35, no. 66, ND466 C35 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of important modern pictures of Sir John Kelk : 11 March 1899, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 11, 1899, p. 10, lot 40, Fiche B51 (YCBA) Also available online : Art Sales Catalogues Online - Lugt # 56972 [YCBA]

Christie's sale catalogue : Choice modern pictures & drawings chiefly of the Barbizon and Dutch schools : 26 June 1919, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 26, 1919, p. 41, Lot 158, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 226-227, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Exhibition Catalogue. 1827. 59th., Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 59, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1827, p. 11, no. 147, N5054 A53 50-64 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Guillaume Faroult, Turner et ses peintres, [expositions], Tate Britain, Londres, 23 septembre 2009-31 janvier 2010 ; galeries nationales, grand palais, Paris, 22 février-24 mai 2010 ; museo nacional del Prado, Madrid, 21 juin-19 septembre 2010 , Editions Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2010, p. 37, fig. 32, Nj18 T85 F37 2010 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 67, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 32, 133-4, no. II.14, pl. 26, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 218, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

J.M.W. Turner : a selection of paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon., Exhibition held Oct. 31, 1968-Apr. 21, 1969 in the National Gallery of Art , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1968, pp. 14, 26, no. 11, fig. 11, NJ18 T85 U5 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Michael Lloyd, Turner, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1996, pp. 173, 231, no. 11, NJ18 T85 L57 1996 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Frederic Ogee, Turner, les paysages absolus , Hazan, Paris, 2010, pp. 12, 169..., NJ18 T85 O34 2010 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Painting in England : 1700-1850, Arts Review, vol. 37,, April 1963, p. 21, V 2337 [ORBIS]

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 91, no. 134, pl. 191, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 45-6 (v.1), no. 168, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute, Survey of British painting, May 10-June 12, 1938, no. 58, ND464 P57 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ines Richter-Musso, Turner and the elements, Hirmer, Munich, 2011, pp. 124-25, fig. 9, NJ18.T85 A12 2011 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Christine Riding, Turner & the sea, Thames & Hudson, London, 2013, pp. 27, 38, 139, 146-47, 169, 189, 243, 244, 250, no. 63, NJ18.T85 R52 2013 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Sam Smiles, The late works of J. M. W. Turner : the artist and his critics, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, p. 185, fig. 108, NJ18.t85 S655 2020 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

David H. Solkin, Turner and the masters, Tate Publishing, London, 2009, pp. 182-3, 218, fig. 70, NJ18 T85 T8352 2009+ (YCBA) [YCBA]

Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, p.272, No. P237, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 52 (v.1), no. 196, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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