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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Views from the Road between Chambéry and Aiguebelle; Including One of Montmélian 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Views from the Road between Chambéry and Aiguebelle; Including One of Montmélian’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Verso:
Four Views from the Road between Chambéry and Aiguebelle; Including One of Montmélian 1819
D14115
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 74 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘W’ and ‘Road’ left-hand side of upper sketch
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s journey through Savoy took him to the regional capital, Chambéry, and east towards the Mont Cenis pass. This page contains four sketches seen from the road between Chambéry and Aiguebelle. The three lower drawings represent views looking east in the direction of travel along the Val Gelon, but the uppermost study looks backwards, south-west towards Montmélian, a town on the River Isére approximately ten miles east of Chambéry. Visible in the scene is the seventeenth-century bridge (Pont de l’Isère) and the ruined fortress of the Dukes of Savoy which stands on the citadel just above the town. For further sketches of Montmélian see folios 73 verso and 74 (D14113 and D14114).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Four Views from the Road between Chambéry and Aiguebelle; Including One of Montmélian 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-four-views-from-the-road-between-chambery-and-aiguebelle-r1142974, accessed 27 April 2024.