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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 121 Recto:
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France 1832
D24405
Turner Bequest CCLVII 121
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘121’ towards bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 121’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with drawings taken at the settlement of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, situated some twelve miles west of central Paris. The drawing along the top edge of the page is inverted in relation to the other two. This site features on multiple pages of this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. An engraving of this location with the buildings included here featured in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate T04714.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 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-saint-germain-en-laye-le-de-france-r1175433, accessed 19 September 2024.