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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Château de Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Château de Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 135 Recto:
?Château de Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832
D24432
Turner Bequest CCLVII 135
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘135’ top left, ascending vertically, ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 135’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with drawings of monumental buildings ranged along the brow of a hill. The recurrence of sketches on adjacent pages of the hilltop Château de Saint-Cloud suggest that these views were taken at the same location. For comparison, a list of these drawings is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.
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John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Château de Saint-Cloud, 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-chateau-de-saint-cloud-le-de-france-r1175460, accessed 27 April 2024.