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

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

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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
D20479
Turner Bequest CCXXIV 173
Chalk and pencil on blue paper, 140 x 191 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXXIV 173’ bottom left, descending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The date and occasion of this slight pencil sketch of the riverbank 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 is attached to D20480 (Turner Bequest CCXXIV 174) along the bottom edge, from which it is divided by a horizontal crease. There are brown stains, creasing, and a tear down the left-hand edge of the sheet.
Verso:
The sheet bears John Ruskin’s red ink note ‘173’ in the bottom right-hand corner. Immediately to the left of this is a pencil note ‘235 | o’ red ink ‘51’. There a short dashes of red and black chalk towards the right-hand edge.

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-r1185476, accessed 21 November 2024.