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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Boulevard, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Boulevard, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
A Boulevard, Paris 1832
D24267
Turner Bequest CCLVII 52
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘JM’ top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 52’ 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 down a wide Parisian boulevard. Particular attention has been paid to the recession of the tree-lined thoroughfare in perspective. Turner made several sketches of Parisian streets in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. These studies culminated in an engraving of a lively street scene 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 T04723.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘A Boulevard, Paris 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-a-boulevard-paris-r1175295, accessed 18 September 2024.