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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lanterne de Démosthène and Bridge at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lanterne de Démosthène and Bridge at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Lanterne de Démosthène and Bridge at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832
D24241
Turner Bequest CCLVII 38a
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 much of this page with landscape views of the riverside landscape around the Château de Saint-Cloud, some seven miles west of central Paris. This location is given away by the detailed description of the ornamental Lanterne de Démosthène in the top right-hand corner; a Napoleonic folly erected within the palace pleasure grounds.1 For the watercolour of the Lanterne which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24697 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 132). This led to an engraving 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 T05619. A list of pages in the present volume featuring Saint-Cloud is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

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Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.55, 223–28.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Lanterne de Démosthène and Bridge at Saint-Cloud, 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-lanterne-de-demosthene-and-bridge-at-saint-cloud-le-de-r1175269, accessed 19 April 2024.