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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Malmaison, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Malmaison, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 152 Recto:
?Malmaison, Île-de-France 1832
D24465
Turner Bequest CCLVII 152
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘152’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 152’ 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 studies of a wooded valley with a river threading through it. The handling is too cursory here to suggest a location definitively, although this volume contains numerous such landscapes taken in the countryside surrounding Paris and around the River Marne to the east of the city. Art historian Ian Warrell has pointed out that these scenes bear a likeness to Turner’s sketches of the chateau of Malmaison in this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison.1

John Chu
January 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, p.221.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Malmaison, 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-malmaison-le-de-france-r1175493, accessed 24 April 2024.