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Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
Luxembourg: The Citadel of St.-Esprit, with the Louis and Beck Bastions, ca. 1839
Watercolor on gouache on paper; 5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (14 x 19.4 cm)
Tate, London, Turner Bequest, 1856
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Following Turner's 1839 visit to the newly independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, he made thirty pages of sketches that resulted in a series of about twenty gouaches on blue paper. Turner may have recorded this view of the skyline, dominated by the Citadel of the Holy Spirit, with an eye toward future commissions.
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