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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Avenue of Trees, ?Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Avenue of Trees, ?Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
Avenue of Trees, ?Île-de-France 1832
D24182
Turner Bequest CCLVII 8a
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 much of this page with a study of an avenue of trees with strait paths and an open stretch of flat ground. Such features are common to the formal gardens of Paris and the Île-de-France which were the subject of extensive study in this volume. For comparisons, see the sketchbook Introduction for lists of these drawings. A further cursory study of irregular buildings has been included along the bottom edge of the page.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Avenue of 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-avenue-of-trees-le-de-france-r1175210, accessed 14 December 2024.