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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner River Seine, Paris 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Seine, Paris’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
River Seine, Paris 1826
D34440
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 83
Pencil on white wove paper, 238 x 171 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘Dru’ top right, ‘Commune | M[...]n | Le Pont | Oct[...] Municipal | [...] ‘M[...]l’, ‘B[...] | [...]’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘83’ top right, ascending vertically
Blind stamped twice with the Turner Bequest monogram centre
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 83’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches are among several views of Paris which Turner worked onto a batch of white Whatman paper on his 1826 tour of Northern France.1 A list of these is provided in the Introduction to this section.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.23, 155.
Technical Notes:
The sketch is drawn on a sheet of paper folded in two. It is attached along the right-hand edge to D34439 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 82).
Verso:
Blank

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘River Seine, Paris 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-river-seine-paris-r1185605, accessed 20 September 2024.