Turner and his painters
February 24 2010 - May 24 2010
Exhibition
Les Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
Throughout his very long career, the deeply original British landscape painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) drew inspiration from works by both old masters and contemporaries. Turner was often uneasy, fussy and even deliberately competitive, but these relationships with his predecessors and peers was always productive, fuelling his progress along his most demanding path.
The "Turner and his painters" exhibition retraces and illustrates the development of Turner's very personal vision, through the many chance or deliberate, but always opportune and enriching interaction that influenced his remarkable career. Nearly 100 paintings and other graphic works (studies and engravings) from major British and American collections, as well as the Louvre and the Prado will be on show.
Open: 9 am to 10 pm Friday to Monday; 9 am to 2 pm on Tuesday, 10 am to 10 pm on
Wednesday, 10 am to 8 pm on Thursday. Close on May 1st
Admission: € 11 - concession €8 (visitors aged 13-25, job seekers, large families)
See the exhibition website