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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Barrière de Passy, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Barrière de Passy, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
Barrière de Passy, Paris 1832
D24252
Turner Bequest CCLVII 44
Pencil on white laid paper, 127 x 175 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘2’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 44’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top of this page, Turner worked a cursory view of Paris from the Barrière de Passy, a customs office located on the western edge of the city. For the watercolour of this same prospect which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24682 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 117). 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 impression T04719.
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John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Barrière de Passy, 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-barriere-de-passy-paris-r1175280, accessed 26 April 2024.