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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Interior, ?Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Interior, ?Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 169 Verso:
Interior, ?Île-de-France 1832
D24499
Turner Bequest CCLVII 169a
Pencil on white laid paper, 127 x 175 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Ba[...] – Rue de H[...] | Chez [...]d s[...]p re[...] | 1793’ right centre, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the centre of this page with a study of figures gathered in an interior. Turner travelled extensively around Paris and its surrounding countryside with this sketchbook and also up the River Marne to the east of the city, so this scene was probably captured in one of those locations. The left-hand side of the page had a large section torn out of it when Turner used it which has subsequently been repaired. As a result, the area just to the right of the repair bears a small part of a drawing of a carriage on folio 168 verso (D24497; Turner Bequest CCLVII 168a). A semi-legible note on the right-hand side of the drawing records a French address.
Technical notes:
A large section of the left-hand part of the page has been torn out and repaired.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Interior, ?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-interior-le-de-france-r1175527, accessed 20 September 2024.