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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings and Trees, ?Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings and Trees, ?Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 127 Recto:
Buildings and Trees, ?Île-de-France 1832
D24417
Turner Bequest CCLVII 127
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘127’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 127’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner worked a study of a landscape of trees and buildings into the centre of this page. The handling is too cursory here to suggest a location, although this volume contains numerous such landscapes taken in the countryside surrounding Paris and around the River Marne to the east of the city. For comparison, a list of these drawings is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Buildings and Trees, ?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-buildings-and-trees-le-de-france-r1175445, accessed 26 April 2024.