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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Near Cluses, with Le Môle 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Near Cluses, with Le Môle’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto:
Near Cluses, with Le Môle 1802
D04444
Turner Bequest LXXIII 49
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cluses’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 49’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner passed though Cluses on his way down the Arve valley towards Mont Blanc. It was his next stop after Bonneville, a distance of about eight miles. He made four sketches in this sketchbook, see also folios 50–2 (D04445–D04447), before continuing to St Martin. Here Turner is looking back across the broad base of the Arve valley towards Le Môle rising north-east of Bonneville.
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David Blayney Brown
June 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Near Cluses, with Le Môle 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-near-cluses-with-le-mole-r1133073, accessed 27 April 2024.