JMW Turner, the Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon, France - Sheffield Museums Trust

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An oil painting of a rural landscape on a sunny day. In the foreground figures dance and celebrate on a hillside. In the background there is a river, trees, buildings and a bridge, with mountains in the distance.

An oil painting of a rural landscape on a sunny day. In the foreground figures dance and celebrate on a hillside. In the background there is a river, trees, buildings and a bridge, with mountains in the distance.

JMW Turner, The Festival Of The Opening Of The Vintage At Macon, About 1803

JMW Turner, The Festival Of The Opening Of The Vintage At Macon, About 1803

See one of the stars of the city’s visual art collection.

Turner travelled through Mâcon in Burgundy during the grape harvest in 1802. This painting supposedly depicts the festival which accompanied the harvest, but is actually a view of the Thames from Richmond Hill in Surrey. It’s no less impressive for it though, and ones one of the real highlights of our Landscapes display.

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An oil painting of a rural landscape on a sunny day. In the foreground figures dance and celebrate on a hillside. In the background there is a river, trees, buildings and a bridge, with mountains in the distance. — Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Festival Of The Opening Of The Vintage At Macon, About 1803.

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