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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Saint-Cloud or Sèvres, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 140 Recto:
?Saint-Cloud or Sèvres, Île-de-France 1832
D24441
Turner Bequest CCLVII 140
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘2’ top right, ascending
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 140’ top right, ascending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled most of this page with a river view, possibly depicting the Seine valley some seven miles west of central Paris. This location is suggested by the presence of the type of long, arched bridge that traversed the river at Saint-Cloud and Sèvres.1 For comparisons, see the watercolours of the riverside scenery in this area which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24688 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 123), D24689 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 124), and D24697 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 132).

John Chu
January 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.55, 223–28.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Saint-Cloud or Sèvres, 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-cloud-or-sevres-le-de-france-r1175469, accessed 23 September 2024.