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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rambouillet, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rambouillet, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Rambouillet, Île-de-France 1832
D24222
Turner Bequest CCLVII 29
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘29’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 29’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with a study of the Château de Rambouillet in its wooded setting, located some thirty miles south-west of Paris. The house’s crenellated round tower can be seen rising above the rest of the edifice. Turner made several sketches of this site in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Rambouillet, Île-de-France 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-rambouillet-le-de-france-r1175250, accessed 02 August 2025.