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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pont Notre-Dame, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pont Notre-Dame, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Pont Notre-Dame, Paris 1832
D24299
Turner Bequest CCLVII 68
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘68’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 68’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the top half of this page with a study of the medieval Pont Notre-Dame which crossed the Seine in central Paris. Turner made several sketches of this structure in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. For the watercolour of this subject which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24684 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 119). 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 impressions T04722.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Pont Notre-Dame, 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-notre-dame-paris-r1175327, accessed 19 April 2024.