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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner St-Sulpice, Paris 1821

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
St-Sulpice, Paris 1821
D18575
Turner Bequest CCXI 32a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Lit’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study, identified as the Church of St-Sulpice in Paris, is a rare instance of Turner paying attention to single architectural motifs during his 1821 tour of northern France.1 Rather than a single sketch, there appear to be several studies here of different architectural features including the distinctive non-identical towers at the west end of the church as seen from the south-east.
There are further sketches of Paris on folios 33 verso–34 and 39 (Tate D18577–D18578, D18585; Turner Bequest CCXI 33a–34, 39).

Thomas Ardill
February 2013

1
Warrell 1999, p.24.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘St-Sulpice, Paris 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-st-sulpice-paris-r1146269, accessed 29 March 2024.