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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Street Scene with Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Street Scene with Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Verso:
Street Scene with Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris 1832
D24245
Turner Bequest CCLVII 40a
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 this page with a view along a wide Parisian thoroughfare. The bell tower of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont appears in the top right-hand corner of the page, shortened so as to fit within the available space. Turner made several sketches of Parisian streets in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. These studies culminated in an engraving of a lively street scene 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 T04723.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Street Scene with Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, 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-street-scene-with-saint-etienne-du-mont-paris-r1175273, accessed 12 May 2024.