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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of the River Seine at Saint-Cloud 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of the River Seine at Saint-Cloud’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
View of the River Seine at Saint-Cloud 1821
D24552
Turner Bequest CCLVIII 27a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 123 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From Saint-Cloud this view looks towards Mont Valerien with the two bridges of Saint-Cloud below.1 The sketch has been loosely related to the gouache and watercolour design of Bridge of St-Cloud from Sèvres, c.1833 (Tate D24689; Turner Bequest CCLIV 124) for Turner’s Annual Tour, 1835 (Tate T05620); although that design is more closely based on sketches made in the Paris and Environs sketchbook in 1832 (Tate D24454 and D24457; Turner Bequest CCLVII 146a, 148).2
For further sketches made at Saint-Cloud in the present book, see folio 3 verso (Tate D24505; Turner Bequest CCLVIII 27a).

Thomas Ardill
February 2013

1
Ian Warrell, Turner Catalogue Files, Tate CCLVIII 27a.
2
Warrell 1999, p.277 under no.144.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘View of the River Seine at 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-view-of-the-river-seine-at-saint-cloud-r1146339, accessed 24 April 2024.