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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hôtel de Sillery, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hôtel de Sillery, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Recto:
Hôtel de Sillery, Paris 1832
D24287
Turner Bequest CCLVII 62
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Quai Conti’ and ‘Bur[...] | de V[...] | [...] x’ towards bottom left, ‘L[...] Cl[...] NY ON [...] cl[...y]’ bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘62’ top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 62’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a sketch of the Hôtel de Sillery on the Quai de Conti. As one of Napoleon’s Parisian residences, this building was of particular interest to the artist as he sought subjects to illustrate a new edition of Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1834–36). This sketch and the numerous notes which it is inscribed it formed the basis for one of the volume’s engraved vignettes; see Tate impression T04734.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Hôtel de Sillery, 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-hotel-de-sillery-paris-r1175315, accessed 24 April 2024.