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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy; Including One of the Grand Perron des Encombres from St-Jean-de-Maurienne 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy; Including One of the Grand Perron des Encombres from St-Jean-de-Maurienne’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Verso:
Three Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy; Including One of the Grand Perron des Encombres from St-Jean-de-Maurienne 1819
D14129
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 82 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Road’, ‘[?co...]’ and ‘[?Wilson] bushes’ bottom of top sketch
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches depicting views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy, on the approach towards St-Jean-de-Maurienne, the capital city of the valley. The bottom sketch includes the jagged profile of the mountain range known as the Grand Perron des Encombres, as seen from the south-west. A view of the peaks from the opposite side can be found on folio 85 verso (D14135).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy; Including One of the Grand Perron des Encombres from St-Jean-de-Maurienne 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-three-views-in-the-maurienne-valley-savoy-including-one-of-r1142988, accessed 20 April 2024.