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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern France 1832 > Paris and Environs Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Palais du Luxembourg, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Palais du Luxembourg, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Palais du Luxembourg, Paris 1832
D24181
Turner Bequest CCLVII 8
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘8’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 8’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with a study of the garden façade of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris. Particular attention has been paid to the way in which the formal elements of the garden – fountain, statuary, planting – frame the building in the landscape. Despite the apparent interest which Turner has shown in this subject, the volume contains no further sketches locatable to this site.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Palais du Luxembourg, Paris 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-palais-du-luxembourg-paris-r1175209, accessed 14 December 2024.