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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Quayside near the Palais des Tuileries, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Quayside near the Palais des Tuileries, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Quayside near the Palais des Tuileries, Paris 1832
D24174
Turner Bequest CCLVII 4
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘4’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 4’ 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 views from the left bank of the Seine in Paris towards the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral and the dome of the Panthéon. On the left-hand side of the page, the grand buildings of the Louvre and Tuileries palace complex rise up to frame the main sketch. Turner made several drawings of the Parisian riverside in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. For the watercolours of the city’s quaysides which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24683–D24685 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 118–20). These culminated in several engravings in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impressions T05621–T05623.
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John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Quayside near the Palais des Tuileries, 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-quayside-near-the-palais-des-tuileries-paris-r1175202, accessed 14 December 2024.