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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bridge and Buildings, ?Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bridge and Buildings, ?Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Bridge and Buildings, ?Paris 1832
D24173
Turner Bequest CCLVII 3a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the centre of this page with a cursorily drawn jumble of buildings lining a river or canal. Turner made several sketches of the Parisian riverside in the present volume providing a possible location for this scene. If so, then the dome on the horizon could belong to Les Invalides or the Panthéon. For comparisons, see the list of Parisian riverside studies in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Bridge and Buildings, ?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-bridge-and-buildings-paris-r1175201, accessed 14 December 2024.