Three exhibitions to see at last

TURNER at the Jacquemart-André Museum

Sixty watercolors and ten oils. All were selected from the collection of the Tate Gallery, which keeps the workshop funds bequeathed to the nation (ie a hundred paintings and tens of thousands of sheets). The route follows a chronological plan, five sections corresponding to five periods. Either the beginnings, England until the end of the blockade, the discovery of Italy, the other continental journeys and the works until 1840, the maturity on the lands of its protector Lord Egremont in Petworth (Sussex) and in the little darling harbor of Margate (Kent).

This clearly identifies the man and his career. But his work? The bias was not to really differentiate the production sold from that kept by the artist. Likewise, works intended for illustration via engraving are installed among other much more experimental. Likewise, the landscapes executed on the motif are close to those that were only partially or not at all. Worse

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