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-Mauriennes, with the Grand Perron des Encombres 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St-Michel-de-Mauriennes, with the Grand Perron des Encombres’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Recto:
St-Michel-de-Mauriennes, with the Grand Perron des Encombres 1819
D14142
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 89
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 89’ bottom right
 
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. A small part of the composition spills over onto the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 88 verso (D14141). Related views of the village can be found on folios 85 verso and 88 (D14135 and D14140).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘St-Michel-de-Mauriennes, with the Grand Perron des Encombres 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-mauriennes-with-the-grand-perron-des-encombres-r1143001, accessed 20 September 2024.