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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Grand Buildings and Trees, ?Île-de-France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Grand Buildings and Trees, ?Île-de-France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Grand Buildings and Trees, ?Île-de-France 1832
D24192
Turner Bequest CCLVII 13a
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 this page with a study of a wooded landscape with grand buildings in the middle distance. Although this drawing is too cursory to identify a definite location, the sketches in this volume feature views of several palaces and gardens in the Île-de-France region around Paris. A list of these studies is provided in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Grand Buildings and 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-grand-buildings-and-trees-le-de-france-r1175220, accessed 14 December 2024.