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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
?Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832
D23909
Turner Bequest CCLIV 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 117 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLIV – 15’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a sketch of a grand, multi-storey edifice set amidst wooded hills. Although Turner’s handling is too cursory here to make a definite identification of this building, the neighbouring pages in the volume contain sketches of the lost Château de Saint-Cloud, located some seven miles west of central Paris on a high eminence on the Seine’s left bank.1 This drawing, therefore, may represent some building within the palace complex, or part of the main seventeenth-century residence itself. For comparisons, see the list of pages in the sketchbook featuring Saint-Cloud provided in the entry for folio 17 verso (D23914; Turner Bequest CCLIV 17a).

John Chu
July 2014

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.55, 223–8.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, 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-saint-cloud-le-de-france-r1173314, accessed 26 April 2024.