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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Paris from Montmartre 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Paris from Montmartre’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
Paris from Montmartre 1821
D18577
Turner Bequest CCXI 33a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This double-page sketch, continued on folio 34 (Tate 18578; CCXI 34), depicts Paris from Montmartre.1 At the centre of the page is Les Invalides. See folio 32 verso (Tate D18575; Turner Bequest CCXI 32a) for further sketches of Paris. Turner also made a sketch at Montmartre on folio 39 (Tate D18585; Turner Bequest CCXI 39), and there is a view of the cemetery in the Dieppe, Rouen and Paris sketchbook: Tate D24553 (Turner Bequest CCLVIII 28).

Thomas Ardill
February 2013

1
Warrell 1999, pp.24 fig.10, 265 no.5 as ‘Paris from Montmartre’.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Paris from Montmartre 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-paris-from-montmartre-r1146271, accessed 26 April 2024.