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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Grand Buildings and Trees, ?Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Grand Buildings and Trees, ?Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Grand Buildings and Trees, ?Île-de-France 1832
D24191
Turner Bequest CCLVII 13
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘13’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 13’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a study of a wooded landscape with grand buildings in the middle distance. Although this drawing is too cursory to identify a definite location, the sketches in this volume feature views of several palaces and gardens in the Île-de-France region around Paris. A list of these studies is provided in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Grand Buildings and Trees, ?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-grand-buildings-and-trees-le-de-france-r1175219, accessed 14 December 2024.