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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Corbeil-Essonnes, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Corbeil-Essonnes, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
Corbeil-Essonnes, Île-de-France 1832
D24313
Turner Bequest CCLVII 75
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘75’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 75’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the central strip of this page with a study of the old stone bridge which once crossed the Seine at Corbeil-Essonnes, located some seventeen miles south of central Paris. Turner made several sketches at this location in this volume, a list of which is included in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Corbeil-Essonnes, Île-de-France 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-corbeil-essonnes-le-de-france-r1175341, accessed 19 April 2024.