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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Saint-Cloud and Sèvres, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 148 Recto:
Saint-Cloud and Sèvres, Île-de-France 1832
D24457
Turner Bequest CCLVII 148
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘148’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 148’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a view Saint-Cloud and Sèvres, located on the Seine some seven miles west of central Paris. This location is identifiable by the inclusion of the two long, arched bridges that traversed the river at this point.1 For examples of the watercolours of the environs of Saint-Cloud which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24688 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 123), D24689 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 124), and D24697 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 132). These culminated in three engravings in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France), and a further engraved illustration for a new edition of Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1834–36); see Tate T04739, T05618, T05619, and T05620. 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, ‘Saint-Cloud and Sèvres, 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-and-sevres-le-de-france-r1175485, accessed 18 April 2024.