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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Troyes, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Troyes, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 108 Verso:
?Troyes, Northern France 1832
D24380
Turner Bequest CCLVII 108a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Vall[...]’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a view of trees and densely clustered buildings. Art historians Anne Lyles and Diane Perkins have suggested that this scene depicts the cathedral town of Troyes, situated about one hundred miles south-east of Paris.1 Certainly drawings of this site appear frequently in this part of the volume. A list of these is provided in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison.

John Chu
January 2015

1
Anne Lyles and Diane Perkins, Colour into Line: Turner and the Art of Engraving, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1989, p.41 under no.27.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Troyes, Northern 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-troyes-northern-france-r1175408, accessed 25 April 2024.