Artwork Details
8-7/16 x 11-15/16 in. (plate) 11-7/16 x 15-1/16 in. (sheet)
Mark Descriptionblindstamp, lower right; [JMWT] (Lugt) | Collector's stamp: verso, lower right: [AM] (Arthur Mitchell) | Collector's stamp: verso, lower right: [KP] (Kurt Pantzer)
Accession NumberBequest of Kurt F. Pantzer
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteTurner Sale, March 1873.; Miss Smith of Boughty Ferry, Sale (Sotheby's, London, England), 25 July 25 1949. lot 36); Arthur Mitchell, Cheltenham; Kurt Pantzer, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Turner 's use of finely-grained aquatint in place of the toothier mezzotint to tone the sky in Calm was appropriate to achieve the "golden colour of ambient vapour," which he admired in the 17th-century paintings of Aelbert Cuyp.
"Turner painted several pictures in imitation of [the Dutch masters]; and those in which he tried to rival Cuyp are healthy and noble works, being in fact just what most of Cuyps's pictures are-faithful studies of Dutch boats in calm weather on smooth water."
-John Ruskin, 1856
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Journey into Light: Travels with J.M.W. Turner
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
July 24, 2020 - December 6, 2020
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