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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Manor House, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Manor House, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 110 Verso:
A Manor House, Northern France 1832
D24384
Turner Bequest CCLVII 110a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with studies of a substantial house typical of the architecture of northern France. Attention has been paid to the arrangement of windows on the façade and tall fence posts around the forecourt. Turner travelled extensively around the satellite settlements of Paris in the Île-de-France with this sketchbook and also up the River Marne to the east of the city, so this scene was probably captured in one of those regions.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘A Manor House, 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-a-manor-house-northern-france-r1175412, accessed 24 April 2024.