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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Quai du Louvre and Pont Neuf, Paris 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Quai du Louvre and Pont Neuf, Paris’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Quai du Louvre and Pont Neuf, Paris 1826
D23317
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 37
Pencil on white laid paper, 103 x 153 mm
Partial watermark of bunch of grapes
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘37’ top left, ascending vertically, ‘266’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX 37’ 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 Parisian view of the Seine as it flows under the Pont Neuf and past the Quai du Louvre. There are numerous pages featuring the riverside of Paris in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook introduction. Turner made numerous studies of the city’s quaysides over the course of his career, culminating in several illustrations of the subject for the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impressions T05621–T05623.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Quai du Louvre and Pont Neuf, Paris 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-quai-du-louvre-and-pont-neuf-paris-r1185157, accessed 26 April 2024.