'Mountains, Looking towards St Gervais-les-Bains', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Mountains, Looking towards St Gervais-les-Bains

From France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXIII

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 138 x 215 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D04391

Turner Bequest LXXIII

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Inside Front Cover:

Mountains, Looking towards St Gervais-les-Bains 1802

D04391

Pencil on paper laid on board, 138 x 215 mm
Affixed with the label of the supplier of the book: ‘No 121 | Rue du Coq Honore | COIFFIER M. de Couleurs et de Papiers | PARIS’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St Jervais’ top right
Numbered and inscribed for the Turner Schedule by Henry Scott Trimmer and Charles Turner in ink ‘no.287. Contains 78 Leaves | Pencil sketches highten with | Chalk – | H.S. Trimmer | C. Turner’, and initialled by John Prescott Knight and Charles Lock Eastlake in pencil ‘J.P.K. | C.L.E.’
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII’ top right, descending vertically

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Following Turner’s inscription, David Hill has confirmed in correspondence with the author Finberg’s identification of this very slight sketch.1 It shows a view towards St Gervais-les-Bains, taken from the old road from St Martin to Servoz. At this point Turner was following the Arve valley south towards Mont Blanc on the outward stage of his Alpine journey.

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

David Hill, letter to David Blayney Brown, 4 March 2004, Tate catalogue files.

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.