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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 166 Recto:
?Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France 1832
D24492
Turner Bequest CCLVII 166
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘166’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII ’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with wide landscape views of a river valley viewed from a high vantage. Art historian Ian Warrell has suggested that these drawings were taken at Saint-Germain-en-Laye to the north-west of central Paris.1

John Chu
January 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, p.267 under no.38.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 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-germain-en-laye-le-de-france-r1175520, accessed 24 April 2024.