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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Palais Bourbon and the Pont de la Concorde, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Palais Bourbon and the Pont de la Concorde, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Palais Bourbon and the Pont de la Concorde, Paris 1832
D24172
Turner Bequest CCLVII 3
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘12’ towards top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘3’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 3’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner worked onto this page a drawing of the Palais Bourbon as seen from the right bank of the Seine near the gardens of the Palais des Tuileries. Particular attention has been paid to the spacious effect of the arched Pont de la Concorde stretching towards the portico of the Palais Bourbon. Turner made several sketches of the Parisian riverside in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. For the watercolours of the city’s quaysides which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24683–D24685 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 118–20). These culminated in several engravings in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impressions T05621–T05623.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Palais Bourbon and the Pont de la Concorde, Paris 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, 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-palais-bourbon-and-the-pont-de-la-concorde-paris-r1175200, accessed 18 April 2024.