Juliet and Her Nurse
| Juliet and Her Nurse |
|---|
| William Turner , 1836 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 92 × 123 cm |
| Private collection
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Juliet and Her Nurse is a painting by William Turner dating from 1836.
Shown is the St. Mark's Square from the bird's eye view overlooking the Campanile , the front side of San Marco , the Grand Canal and a shadowy Santa Maria della Salute on the right hand side. At the bottom right of the picture, Julia and her nurse are standing on a balcony.
The picture was auctioned at Sotheby’s on May 29, 1980 for 6.4 million dollars, at that time the highest price that could be redeemed for a picture in an auction. Turner's picture was first shown in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in Trafalgar Square in 1836 , along with two other Turner's pictures, Rome, from Mount Aventine and Mercury and Argus . Juliet and Her Nurse has been the target of violent attacks by the Reverend John Eagles, a former curator at St. Nicholas Church in Birmingham and an avid amateur painter himself. In an article in Blackwood's Magazine , he described the picture as "strange jumble" ( strange jumble ), and he accused Turner that he a scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet have moved from Verona to Venice. The picture is a "highly inappropriate mixture, in which white mustard yellow and coarse sienna are childishly blotted together". This slipping called the then 17-year-old Ruskin on the scene, who vehemently protested against this criticism in a letter to the magazine.
reproduction
The picture was spread through a copper engraving by George Hollis (1793–1842). The engraving from 1842 is 42.2 × 56.6 cm in size.
literature
- Harold I. Shapiro: Turner's Juliet and Her Nurse . In: The Art Bulletin. Volume 63, Issue 2, 1981. P. 346, doi : 10.1080 / 00043079.1981.10787894 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Turner Brings 10 Million The New York Times, July 6, 1984, accessed April 21, 2019
- ^ Howard Brinkley: JMW Turner. A biography. Chapter 5: Turner and John Ruskin. Bookcaps Study Guides 2014.
- ↑ "[…] a most unpleasant mixture, wherein white gambouge [sic] and raw sienna are, with childish execution, daubed together".
- ↑ Adam Kirsch: Lifting the Veil: JMW Turner and John Ruskin In: The New York Sun, August 19, 2008, accessed July 30, 2015.
- ^ Engraving by George Hollis, Tate Gallery, London .