Joseph Mallord William Turner

Saint-Cloud, Île de France

c.1826

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In Tate Britain

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Loose Studies of Northern France
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 278 × 191 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D20482
Turner Bequest CCXXIV 176

Catalogue entry

The date and occasion of this slight pencil sketch of the riverbank at Saint-Cloud are not known. However, Turner specialist Ian Warrell has speculated that it may record an otherwise undocumented expedition from nearby Paris during the 1826 tour.1 See the Introduction to this section for a list of comparable studies of this site.

Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, p.28.

Technical Notes:

The sheet is attached to D20481 (Turner Bequest CCXXIV 175) along the bottom edge, from which it is divided by a horizontal crease.

Verso:

The sheet bears John Ruskin’s red ink note ‘176’ in the bottom right-hand corner. It bears a brown stain with darker spots along the right-hand edge.

John Chu
March 2016

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