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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Paris from Saint-Cloud, Île de France c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Paris from Saint-Cloud, Île de France’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Paris from Saint-Cloud, Île de France c.1826
D20541
Turner Bequest CCXXIV 227
Pencil on blue paper, 280 x 190 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘227’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXIV 227’ top right, ascending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The date and occasion of these sketches of the distant view of Paris as seen from Saint-Cloud are not known. However, Turner specialist Ian Warrell has speculated that it may record an otherwise undocumented expedition to the site from Paris during the 1826 tour.1 See the Introduction to this section for a list of comparable studies of this site.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, p.28.
Technical Notes:
The sheet bears a horizontal crease across the centre where it has been folded in half. The pencil sketches are all above the crease line. There are brown stains down the right-hand edge of the sheet.
Verso:
See entry for Tate D20540 (Turner Bequest CCXXIV 226).

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Paris from Saint-Cloud, Île de France c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, 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-paris-from-saint-cloud-le-de-france-r1185499, accessed 26 April 2024.