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 The Entrance to the Allée Blanche above Courmayeur, Mont Blanc in the Distance 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Entrance to the Allée Blanche above Courmayeur, Mont Blanc in the Distance’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Recto:
The Entrance to the Allée Blanche above Courmayeur, Mont Blanc in the Distance 1802
D04465
Turner Bequest LXXIII 65
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Fort by ye White Valley’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 65’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Courmayeur, see folio 62 verso of this sketchbook (D04460). The various sketches made nearby in the book are listed with it. Here, as identified by David Hill in correspondence with the author,1 Turner is looking back from the direction of Courmayeur to the village of Entreves and the entrance of the Allée Blanche – his ‘White Valley’. The Allée is close to the base of the Miage glacier. See especially the verso of this leaf (D04466) and double page spreads, folios 66 verso–67 (D04468–D04469) and 67 verso–68 (D04470–D04471) for other sketches made nearby.

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

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Letter to David Blayney Brown, 4 April 2004, Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Entrance to the Allée Blanche above Courmayeur, Mont Blanc in the Distance 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-the-entrance-to-the-allee-blanche-above-courmayeur-mont-r1133094, accessed 23 April 2024.