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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Palatial Façade, ?Paris or Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Palatial Façade, ?Paris or Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 158 Recto:
Palatial Façade, ?Paris or Île-de-France 1832
D24477
Turner Bequest CCLVII 158
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘3 1 3 1 3’ top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘158’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 158’ top right, ascending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the top left-hand quadrant of this page with a drawing of a palatial façade. The building’s rusticated ground floor and portico colonnade are typical of the Baroque architecture of Paris and the Île-de-France which were the subject of extensive study in this volume. A list of these drawing is provided in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Palatial Façade, ?Paris or 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-palatial-facade-paris-or-le-de-france-r1175505, accessed 26 April 2024.