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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern France 1832 > Paris and Environs Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Street Scene with a Chapel, Northern France 1832

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Street Scene with a Chapel, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Street Scene with a Chapel, Northern France 1832
D24228
Turner Bequest CCLVII 32
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘P[...]y’ bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘32’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 32’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a view of a high street with a chapel and small tower on the right-hand side of the scene. An illegible note beneath the drawing presumably records the name of the place depicted, identifying its precise location for the artist. Turner travelled extensively around the satellite settlements of Paris with this sketchbook and also up the River Marne to the east of the city, so this scene was probably captured in one of the towns in those regions.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Street Scene with a Chapel, Northern France 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, 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-street-scene-with-a-chapel-northern-france-r1175256, accessed 20 September 2024.