Joseph Mallord William Turner

Panthéon, Paris

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
D24185
Turner Bequest CCLVII 10

Catalogue entry

With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled most of this page with a sketch of the western façade of Panthéon building in Paris. The sketch of the dome and cupola along with some of the building’s inscriptions continues over onto the bottom edge of folio 9 verso opposite (D24184; Turner Bequest CCLVII 9a). Several pages of the volume feature studies of this monument to France’s glorious dead, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

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