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 149 Verso:
?Saint-Cloud or Sèvres, Île-de-France 1832
D24460
Turner Bequest CCLVII 149a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Po[..] Way’ towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a river view, perhaps depicting the Seine some seven miles west of central Paris. This location is suggested by the inclusion of a long, arched bridge of a type which 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-r1175488, accessed 19 April 2024.