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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Street Corner, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Street Corner, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
A Street Corner, Paris 1832
D24265
Turner Bequest CCLVII 51
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘cafe’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘51’ top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 51’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a view of the junction of a French thoroughfare, presumably in Paris. Particular attention has been paid the mix of façades and the gentle incline of the tree-lined street. Turner made several sketches of Parisian streets in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. These studies culminated in an engraving of a lively street scene in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate T04723.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘A Street Corner, Paris 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-street-corner-paris-r1175293, accessed 27 August 2025.