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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Palais de la Nation, Brussels 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Palais de la Nation, Brussels’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 273 Recto:
The Palais de la Nation, Brussels 1824
D20072
Turner Bequest CCXVI 266
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[smith &] allnut | [18]22’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘266’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–266’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This carefully wrought study depicts the Palais de la Nation at Brussels, Belgium. It was constructed for the Sovereign Council of Brabant between 1779 and 1783 to the designs of French architect Gilles-Barnabé Guimard.1 At the time of Turner’s visit, the building was one of the sites of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands’ Parliament. Following the Revolution of 1830, however, the palace became the home of the Belgian Parliament and remains so to this day. Turner visited Brussels on 12 August 1824, at the very beginning of his tour, and on 5 September, towards the end of it. See also: Tate D20067–D20071; Turner Bequest CCXVI 263a–265a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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‘Parlement Fédéral-Palais de la Nation’, Visit Brussels, accessed 10 November 2014, http://visitbrussels.be/bitc/BE_en/monument/782/parlement-federal-palais-de-la-nation.do

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Palais de la Nation, Brussels 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-the-palais-de-la-nation-brussels-r1174867, accessed 24 April 2024.