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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Paris from a High Vantage 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Paris from a High Vantage’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 147 Verso:
Paris from a High Vantage 1832
D24456
Turner Bequest CCLVII 147a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil D[...]y top left, ‘d[...]y 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 Paris seen across a river valley from a high vantage. Art historians Anne Lyles and Diane Perkins suggest that this drawing was made close to Saint-Cloud to the west of Paris.1 Turner made many landscape studies in that area, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison.

John Chu
January 2015

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Anne Lyles and Diane Perkins, Colour into Line: Turner and the Art of Engraving, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1989, p.41.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Paris from a High Vantage 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-paris-from-a-high-vantage-r1175484, accessed 27 April 2024.