Joseph Mallord William Turner

Views at Saint-Cloud; and Montmartre Cemetery, Paris

1821

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Dieppe, Rouen and Paris Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 118 × 123 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D24553
Turner Bequest CCLVIII 28

Catalogue entry

There are four sketches on this page. Across the top half is a view of the Seine at Saint-Cloud. Turner has noted, but not drawn, a ‘figure with plow [plough]’. There is a second view of the Seine and a view back towards Paris, perhaps from Saint-Cloud, at the left edge of the page, drawn with the book turned to the right. See folio 3 verso (Tate D24505; Turner Bequest CCLVIII 3a). Inset into this sketch at the right is small compositional sketch of a tree with a river beyond.
Across the bottom half of the page is a sketch of the cemetery at Montmartre, looking down at the left to Paris in the distance.

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

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