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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Palais des Tuileries and Arc du Carrousel, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Palais des Tuileries and Arc du Carrousel, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 162 Verso:
Palais des Tuileries and Arc du Carrousel, Paris 1832
D24486
Turner Bequest CCLVII 162a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscibed by Turner in pencil ‘D[...]C[...]y’ towards top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a study of the lost Palais des Tuileries with the Napoleonic Arc du Carrousel immediately before it. The existence of this sketch and a subsequent colour study (Tate D24752; Turner Bequest CCLIX 187) suggests that Turner considered the subject as an illustration for Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France) or the new edition of Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1834–36) although the monument did not make it into either publication in the event.1

John Chu
January 2015

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W[illiam] G[eorge] Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London 1908, . vol.II, pp.264–76 nos.453–92, 288–92 nos.525–39.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Palais des Tuileries and Arc du Carrousel, Paris 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-palais-des-tuileries-and-arc-du-carrousel-paris-r1175514, accessed 25 April 2024.