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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Grande Cascade at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Grande Cascade at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 149 Recto:
The Grande Cascade at Saint-Cloud, Île-de-France 1832
D24459
Turner Bequest CCLVII 149
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘149’ top left, ascending vertically, and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 149’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a description of the gardens at the Château de Saint-Cloud, located some seven miles west of central Paris on the banks of the Seine. On the left-hand side of the page is included part of the Grande Cascade that tumbles down towards the river from the formal parterres. This spectacular garden ornament featured in Turner’s subsequent depiction of Saint-Cloud for a new edition of Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1834–36); see Tate impression T04974. A list of pages in the present volume featuring Saint-Cloud is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘The Grande Cascade at 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-the-grande-cascade-at-saint-cloud-le-de-france-r1175487, accessed 25 April 2024.