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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lanterne de Démosthène at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lanterne de Démosthène at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 138 Verso:
Lanterne de Démosthène at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832
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Turner Bequest CCLVII 138a
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 the left-hand side of this page with cursory drawings of the riverside landscape around the Château de Saint-Cloud, some seven miles west of central Paris. This location is given away by the description of the ornamental Lanterne de Démosthène towards the top of the page, a Napoleonic folly erected within the palace pleasure grounds.1 For the watercolour of the Lanterne which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24697 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 132). This led to an engraving 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 T05619. A list of pages in the present volume featuring Saint-Cloud is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.55, 223–28.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Lanterne de Démosthène 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-lanterne-de-demosthene-at-saint-cloud-le-de-france-r1175466, accessed 23 September 2024.