J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Dieppe, Rouen and Paris Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Views at Saint-Cloud; and Montmartre Cemetery, Paris 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views at Saint-Cloud; and Montmartre Cemetery, Paris’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Views at Saint-Cloud; and Montmartre Cemetery, Paris 1821
D24553
Turner Bequest CCLVIII 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 123 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ?‘Figure with plow’ centre, ‘mont marte lower right
Stamped in black ‘CCLVIII – 28’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are four sketches on this page. Across the top half is a view of the Seine at Saint-Cloud. Turner has noted, but not drawn, a ‘figure with plow [plough]’. There is a second view of the Seine and a view back towards Paris, perhaps from Saint-Cloud, at the left edge of the page, drawn with the book turned to the right. See folio 3 verso (Tate D24505; Turner Bequest CCLVIII 3a). Inset into this sketch at the right is small compositional sketch of a tree with a river beyond.
Across the bottom half of the page is a sketch of the cemetery at Montmartre, looking down at the left to Paris in the distance.

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Views at Saint-Cloud; and Montmartre Cemetery, Paris 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-views-at-saint-cloud-and-montmartre-cemetery-paris-r1146340, accessed 19 April 2024.