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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Dieppe, Rouen and Paris Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Paris from Saint-Cloud 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Paris from Saint-Cloud’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Paris from Saint-Cloud 1821
D24507
Turner Bequest CCLVIII 4a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 123 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ian Warrell has identified this sketch as a view of Paris from Saint-Cloud.1 Tiny marks on the horizon represent the buildings of Paris while a turn of the Seine can be seen behind rocks in the foreground. There are further sketches of this view on folio 3 verso and 28 verso (Tate D24505, D24554; Turner Bequest CCLVIII 3a, 28a). For a list of all Turner’s sketches of Paris in this sketchbook see folio 3 verso.

Thomas Ardill
February 2013

1
Ian Warrell, Turner catalogue files, Tate, CCLVIII 4a.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Paris from Saint-Cloud 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-paris-from-saint-cloud-r1146294, accessed 25 April 2024.