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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pont Neuf, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pont Neuf, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso:
Pont Neuf, Paris 1832
D24276
Turner Bequest CCLVII 56a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Paths’, ‘Yell’ towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a view of the Pont Neuf in Paris from a spot close to the Louvre. Turner made several sketches of the riverside in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. For the watercolours of the city’s quaysides which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24683–D24685 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 118–20). These culminated in several engravings 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 impressions T05621–T05623.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Pont Neuf, 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-pont-neuf-paris-r1175304, accessed 19 April 2024.