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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Barrière de Passy, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Barrière de Passy, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 156 Recto:
Barrière de Passy, Paris 1832
D24473
Turner Bequest CCLVII 156
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Barriere d[...] ch[...] m[....] m Bain [...]’ top, ‘C[...] F[...] towards bottom left, ‘H[...] | B[...] | Del[...]’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘156’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 156’ 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 study of the Barrière de Passy, built to the west of Paris in the late eighteenth century as a customs house. This drawing formed the basis for the watercolour of the subject which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24682 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 117). This led to an illustration in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impression T04719.
Technical notes:
There are streaks of ochre in the upper right-hand quadrant of the page.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Barrière de Passy, Paris 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-barriere-de-passy-paris-r1175501, accessed 23 September 2024.