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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Les Invalides, Paris 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
?Les Invalides, Paris 1826
D23325
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 41
Pencil on white laid paper, 103 x 153 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘41’ bottom right, descending vertically, ‘266’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX 41’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the top right-hand corner of this page with a cursory study of a city roofline. As Tate curator Ian Warrell has suggested, one of the domes may belong to Les Invalides at Paris.1

John Chu
May 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 237.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Les Invalides, Paris 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-les-invalides-paris-r1185165, accessed 28 March 2024.