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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rambouillet, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rambouillet, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
Rambouillet, Île-de-France 1832
D24183
Turner Bequest CCLVII 9
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Ramb[...]tt’ towards bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘9’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 9’ 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 studies of generously spaced urban architecture and tree-lined road. A similar scene runs up the right-hand edge of the page. A note on the bottom edge of the page locates the scene at the settlement of Rambouillet, located some thirty miles south-west of Paris. Turner made several sketches of Rambouillet’s local chateau in the present volume; a list of these is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Rambouillet, Île-de-France 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-rambouillet-le-de-france-r1175211, accessed 25 April 2024.