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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Garden, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Garden, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 165 Recto:
?A Garden, Île-de-France 1832
D24490
Turner Bequest CCLVII 165
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘165’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 165’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled with page with a view taken at an indeterminate location. However, the regular rows of pencil strokes in the foreground are reminiscent of the planting in a parterre. Turner sketched many palace gardens around Paris and the Île-de-France in this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison. The catalogue for a 1983 exhibition of Turner’s works suggested the palace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye as the location of this scene although no further explanation was given.1

John Chu
January 2015

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John Gage, Jerrold Ziff, Nicholas Alfrey and others, J.M.W. Turner, à l’occasion du cinquantième anniversaire du British Council, exhibition catalogue, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris 1983, p.40 note 30.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?A Garden, 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-a-garden-le-de-france-r1175518, accessed 20 September 2024.