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 Two Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Verso:
Two Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 1819
D14131
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 83 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Ji...s]’ bottom left of left-hand sketch, parallel with left-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two distinct sketches. The larger study is part of a wider landscape composition depicting the Croix des Têtes in the Maurienne valley, which has spilled over from the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 84 (D14132). The second drawing has been executed on the left-hand side of the sheet with the sketchbook held vertically. It also appears to represent a view in the Maurienne valley, probably from the road between St-Jean-de-Maurienne and St-Michel-de-Maurienne.
Finberg’s 1909 catalogue of the Turner Bequest incorrectly lists CLXXIII 83a twice: firstly with the title ‘Valley of the Isère (?)’, and secondly as ‘Glaciers’. These two identifications should have been listed together as a single entry. However, this has not affected subsequent folio numbering.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 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-two-views-in-the-maurienne-valley-savoy-r1142990, accessed 26 April 2024.