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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Conciergerie, Paris 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Conciergerie, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto:
The Conciergerie, Paris 1832
D23941
Turner Bequest CCLIV 31
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘DuP[...]’ top centre, ascending vertically
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘31’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLIV – 31’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with multiple architectural and landscape studies of varying degrees of size and detail. The two sketches in the upper left-hand quadrant are too cursory for the identification of a definite location although art historian Ian Warrell recognised the larger drawing across the middle of the page as the prospect across the Pont au Change and the Conciergerie from the Pont Notre-Dame at Paris.1 For the watercolours of the Parisian quaysides which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24683–D24685 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 118– 20). These culminated in several engravings in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impressions T05621–T05623.

John Chu
July 2014

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, p.52.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘The Conciergerie, Paris 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-conciergerie-paris-r1173346, accessed 25 April 2024.