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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern France 1832 > Seine and Paris Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Riverside Terrain; ?Bry-sur-Marne, Île-de-France 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Riverside Terrain; ?Bry-sur-Marne, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Recto:
Riverside Terrain; ?Bry-sur-Marne, Île-de-France 1832
D24009
Turner Bequest CCLIV 65
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 117 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘65’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLIV – 65’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the small drawings that fill this page depict a riverside landscape of hills and churches. Art historian Ian Warrell has identified this as one of the empty pages remaining towards the end of the 1832 Seine tour which Turner subsequently used for sketches of the Marne valley near Paris. That being the case, the small towered church recurring twice at the bottom of the page may represent the medieval Parish Church of Saint-Gervais and Saint-Potais at Bry-sur-Marne.1

John Chu
July 2014

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.49, 256 note 195

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Riverside Terrain; ?Bry-sur-Marne, 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-riverside-terrain-bry-sur-marne-le-de-france-r1173414, accessed 23 April 2024.