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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pont de Bercy, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pont de Bercy, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Verso:
Pont de Bercy, Paris 1832
D24304
Turner Bequest CCLVII 70a
Pencil on white laid paper, 127 x 175 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...] | Bercy B’ towards bottom centre, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked several small river views of the Seine as it threads through central Paris onto this page. In addition to sketches of the western towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral and the city’s bridges, fishermen and their vessels have been included. At the bottom edge of the page, inverted in relation to the other drawings, is a depiction of the suspension bridge crossing the river at Bercy. This piece of engineering would have been new to Turner on the 1832 tour, having been recently opened by Louis-Philippe, King of the French.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Pont de Bercy, 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-de-bercy-paris-r1175332, accessed 27 April 2024.