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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Saint-Cloud or Sèvres, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
?Saint-Cloud or Sèvres, Île-de-France 1832
D24239
Turner Bequest CCLVII 37a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled most of this page with landscape views possibly of the Seine valley some seven miles west of central Paris. This location is suggested by descriptions of long, arched bridges of a type which traversed the river at Saint-Cloud and Sèvres.1 For comparisons, see the watercolours of the riverside scenery in this area which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24688 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 123), D24689 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 124), and D24697 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 132).

John Chu
January 2015

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

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Saint-Cloud or Sèvres, 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-saint-cloud-or-sevres-le-de-france-r1175267, accessed 19 April 2024.