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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 143 Recto:
?Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832
D24447
Turner Bequest CCLVII 143
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘2’ top right, ascending
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 143’ top right, ascending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a drawing of a riverside landscape with a bridge viewed through the narrow trunks of saplings. Turner’s inscription ‘St Cloud’ on a closely comparable scene on folio 142 verso opposite (D24446; Turner Bequest CCLVII 142a) suggests that this sketch was also taken at Saint-Cloud, some seven miles west of central Paris on the banks of the Seine.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?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-saint-cloud-le-de-france-r1175475, accessed 20 September 2024.