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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Church of Saint-Nicolas at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church of Saint-Nicolas at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Verso:
Church of Saint-Nicolas at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France 1832
D24006
Turner Bequest CCLIV 63a
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St Maur’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked a sketch of the Parish Church of Saint-Nicolas at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés at the top of the page. Taller and narrower than it appears in reality, the tower and east end of the church can be seen rising up above the dense town buildings. Art historian Ian Warrell has identified this as one of the empty pages remaining towards the end of the 1832 Seine tour which Turner subsequently used for sketches of the Marne valley near Paris.1 The town recurs on folio 91 verso (D24062; Turner Bequest CCLIV 91a).

John Chu
July 2014

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.49, 256 note 195

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Church of Saint-Nicolas at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Île-de-France 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-church-of-saint-nicolas-at-saint-maur-des-fosses-le-de-r1173411, accessed 25 April 2024.