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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Saint-Cloud, Île de France c.1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Saint-Cloud, Île de France c.1826
D20530
Turner Bequest CCXXIV 217
Pencil on blue paper, 282 x 192 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘217’ top left, inverted
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘CCXXIV – 180’ bottom left, descending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The date and occasion of this faint pencil study of the riverside and bridge at Saint-Cloud are not known. However, Turner specialist Ian Warrell has speculated that it may record an otherwise undocumented expedition from nearby Paris during the 1826 tour.1 See the Introduction to this section for a list of comparable studies of this site.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, p.28.
Technical Notes:
The sheet bears a horizontal crease across the middle where it has been folded in two. The sketches are below the line of the crease.
Verso:
D20529 (Turner Bequest CCXXIV 216).

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Saint-Cloud, Île de France c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, 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-saint-cloud-le-de-france-r1185494, accessed 29 March 2024.