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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cour de la Fontaine, Château de Fontainebleau 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cour de la Fontaine, Château de Fontainebleau’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Verso:
Cour de la Fontaine, Château de Fontainebleau 1832
D24334
Turner Bequest CCLVII 85a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with a view of the Cour de la Fontaine (Fountain Courtyard) at the Château de Fontainebleau, located some forty miles south-east of central Paris. Particular attention has been paid to the densely architectural ornamentation of the façades. Turner made numerous sketches of the palace on the 1832 tour with a view to an illustrating an episode in Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1834–36); see Tate T04980. A list of pages featuring Fontainebleau in the present volume is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cour de la Fontaine, Château de Fontainebleau 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-cour-de-la-fontaine-chateau-de-fontainebleau-r1175362, accessed 19 April 2024.