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 St-Michel-de-Maurienne, Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St-Michel-de-Maurienne, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Verso:
St-Michel-de-Maurienne, Savoy 1819
D14135
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 85 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘garden’ bottom centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this sketch is St-Michel-de-Maurienne, a village at the heart of the Maurienne valley in Savoy. Turner’s viewpoint is the banks of the River Arc looking north-west towards the belltower of the parish church. Visible in the distance is the mountain range of the Grand Perron des Encombres. The composition spills over onto the opposite page of the double-page spread, see folio 86 (D14136) and related sketches can be found on folios 88 and 89 (D14140 and D14142).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘St-Michel-de-Maurienne, 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-st-michel-de-maurienne-savoy-r1142994, accessed 16 April 2024.