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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Pont Neuf, Paris 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
Pont Neuf, Paris 1832
D24297
Turner Bequest CCLVII 67
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Hand[...] | Opus’ towards top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘67’ top right and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 2’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner worked a view of the Pont Neuf in Paris from the banks of the Seine onto this page. The conical roofs of the towers of the Conciergerie can be seen in the top left-hand corner. 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-r1175325, accessed 18 September 2024.