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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Paris, Seine and Dieppe Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Views on Seine, One at Montmartre 1821

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views on Seine, One at Montmartre’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Views on Seine, One at Montmartre 1821
D18585
Turner Bequest CCXI 39
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Mont Mater’ lower centre
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 39’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg identified the four sketches on this page as views on the Seine and one at Montmartre. The Seine sketches are at the top of the page with a barge and bridge, and another thumbnail sketch of a bridge in the top-right corner of the bottom sketch. The middle sketch is inscribed ‘Mont Mater’ and depicts a view down the hill towards the Seine with gates in the foreground at the right. There is a panoramic sketch of Paris from Montmartre on folios 33 verso–34 (Tate D18577–D18578; Turner Bequest CCXI 33a–34).

Thomas Ardill
February 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Views on Seine, One at 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-views-on-seine-one-at-montmartre-r1146279, accessed 19 September 2024.