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 34 Recto:
Paris from Montmartre 1821
D18578
Turner Bequest CCXI 34
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 34’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page continues a panoramic sketch of Paris from Montmartre on folio 33 verso (Tate D18577; Turner Bequest CCXI 33a).1 Turner also made a sketch at Montmartre on folio 39 (Tate D18585; Turner Bequest CCXI 39). For further sketches of Paris, see folio 32 verso (Tate D18575; Turner Bequest CCXI 32a).

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-r1146272, accessed 25 April 2024.