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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Conciergerie, Paris; Beaugency, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Conciergerie, Paris; Beaugency, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
Conciergerie, Paris; Beaugency, Loire Valley 1826
D23299
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 27a
Pencil on white laid paper, 153 x 103 mm
Partial watermark of bunch of grapes
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Boujacie-Gancis’ bottom left, inverted
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘1392’ bottom right, ascending vertically
Inscribed in pencil ‘130’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Tate curator Ian Warrell has identified the towered building at the centre of this page as the Conciergerie on the banks of the Seine in Paris.1 The drawings at the bottom of the page, inverted to those above, represent the walls and towers of Beaugency in the Loire Valley. This is one of a number of pages featuring sketches of these cities in this volume, lists of which are provided in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
May 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.237.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Conciergerie, Paris; Beaugency, Loire Valley 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-conciergerie-paris-beaugency-loire-valley-r1185138, accessed 04 April 2026.