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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Gardens at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Gardens at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 136 Verso:
?Gardens at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832
D24434
Turner Bequest CCLVII 136a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page a landscape of wide flights of stairs and pedestals typical of a formal garden. The recurrence of sketches on adjacent pages of the gardens of Château de Saint-Cloud, some seven miles west of central Paris suggest that this drawing was taken at the same location. For a comparison, see Turner’s illustration of Saint-Cloud’s gardens for a new edition of Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1834–36);1 see Tate impression T04974.

John Chu
January 2015

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W[illiam] G[eorge] Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., vol.II, London 1908, p.265 nos.454, 455.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Gardens at Saint-Cloud, 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-gardens-at-saint-cloud-le-de-france-r1175462, accessed 20 September 2024.