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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Charenton-le-Pont, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Charenton-le-Pont, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Recto:
Charenton-le-Pont, Île-de-France 1832
D24323
Turner Bequest CCLVII 80
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘80’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 80’ 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 studies of the settlement of Charenton-le-Pont, located some four miles south-east of central Paris. Particular attention has been paid to the old bridge surmounted by buildings which crossed the Seine at this point. Drawings of this neighbourhood recur on several pages in this volume, a list of which is included in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Charenton-le-Pont, 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-charenton-le-pont-le-de-france-r1175351, accessed 24 April 2024.