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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Part of the Façade of Palazzo Madama, Turin 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
Study of Part of the Façade of Palazzo Madama, Turin 1819
D14209
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 32 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?lantern]’ above sketch top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch represents a partial study of the Baroque façade of Palazzo Madama in Turin, a castle dating from the 1400s which was originally converted from a fortified Roman gate and later given an elaborate eighteenth-century front with Corinthian pilasters surmounted by a balustrade.1 The artist has left certain areas blank, such as the Corinthian columns marking the main entrance. For a more complete record of the building see folio 33 (D14208; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 32).
The page also contains part of the line of buildings continued from the composition on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 34 (D14210; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 33).

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

1
Today the building houses the collections of the Museo Civico d’Arte Antica.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Study of Part of the Façade of Palazzo Madama, Turin 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-part-of-the-facade-of-palazzo-madama-turin-r1142730, accessed 29 March 2024.