J. M. W. Turner East Cowes Castle, the seat of J.Nash, Esq. the Regatta beating to windward 1828

J. M. W. Turner - East Cowes Castle, the seat of J.Nash,
Esq. the Regatta beating to windward 1828

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From Indianapolis Museum of Art:
This canvas depicts the Royal Yacht Club races held off the Isle of Wight in 1827. From vantage points on shore and aboard a man-o-war moored in the English Channel, Turner made seventy drawings and eight oil sketches of the races. True to his usual practice, however, he did not rely on any single study for this canvas.
Clearly, Turner did not wish to merely record a race but to recreate the romantic pageant of vessels challenging the wind and waves. The atmospheric clarity and complex composition derive from Turner's study of 17th-century Dutch marine painting.

Cézanne painted Bathers from the 1870s onwards, including numerous compositions
of male and female bathers, singly or in groups. In such works, Cézanne was reinte-
rpreting a long tradition of paintings with nude figures in the landscape by artists such
as Titian and Poussin. While the subjects of their works were taken from classical
myths, Cézanne did not use direct literary sources. - art-Cezanne.com

Circus Sideshow 1888 - this is Seurat’s first nocturnal painting and his first
depiction of popular entertainment. It represents the parade, or sideshow,
of the Circus Corvi, which had set up near the place de la Nation in Paris in
the spring of 1887. Sideshows were held on the street, for free, to entice
passersby to purchase tickets. The onlookers at the far right are queued
on stairs leading to the box office. - ArtsViewer.com

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851