Joseph Mallord William Turner

Palatial Façade, ?Paris or Île-de-France

1832

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Paris and Environs Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 175 × 127 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D24477
Turner Bequest CCLVII 158

Catalogue entry

With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the top left-hand quadrant of this page with a drawing of a palatial façade. The building’s rusticated ground floor and portico colonnade are typical of the Baroque architecture of Paris and the Île-de-France which were the subject of extensive study in this volume. A list of these drawing is provided in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison.

John Chu
January 2015

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