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 140 Verso:
?Gardens at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832
D24442
Turner Bequest CCLVII 140a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Park [...] J[...] | N[...]l’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with drawings of classical architectural structures and framing trees typical of a formal garden. The recurrence of sketches on adjacent pages depicting 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); see Tate impression T04974.

John Chu
January 2015

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-r1175470, accessed 20 September 2024.