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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Château de Malmaison, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Château de Malmaison, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 126 Recto:
Château de Malmaison, Île-de-France 1832
D24415
Turner Bequest CCLVII 126
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mal M’ towards top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘126’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 126’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with views of the Château de Malmaison, located some ten miles west of central Paris and former residence of Napoleon’s wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Several sketches of the house feature in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. These culminated in an engraved illustration for a new edition of Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1834–36); see Tate impression T04979.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Château de Malmaison, Île-de-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-chateau-de-malmaison-le-de-france-r1175443, accessed 27 April 2024.