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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Wooded Hills, ?Île-de-France 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 144 Recto:
Wooded Hills, ?Île-de-France 1832
D24449
Turner Bequest CCLVII 144
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘C[...]’ centre left, ‘M[...] D[...]l’ centre right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘144’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 144’ 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 wooded hillsides punctuated by buildings. Although the scenery is too generic to identify the location definitively, this volume contains multiple views of the countryside in the Île-de-France region around Paris as outlined in the sketchbook Introduction. A.J. Finberg suggested that the view represents the landscape around Saint-Cloud, to the west of Paris.1 For comparison, a list of Turner’s sketches of this area is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

1
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.784.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Wooded Hills, ?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-wooded-hills-le-de-france-r1175477, accessed 28 March 2024.