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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Pont Neuf and Île de la Cité, Paris 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pont Neuf and Île de la Cité, Paris’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
Pont Neuf and Île de la Cité, Paris 1826
D23327
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 42
Pencil on white laid paper, 103 x 153 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘42’ top left running vertically and ‘266’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX 42’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner here assumed a position on the Quai Conti in Paris and sketched the view downstream towards the Pont Neuf and Île de la Cité. There are numerous pages featuring the riverside of Paris in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook introduction. Turner made numerous studies of the city’s quaysides over the course of his career, culminating in several illustrations of the subject for the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impressions T05621–T05623.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Pont Neuf and Île de la Cité, 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-pont-neuf-and-le-de-la-cite-paris-r1185167, accessed 26 April 2024.