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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Susa Valley from above Susa on the Mont Cenis Road 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Susa Valley from above Susa on the Mont Cenis Road’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
The Susa Valley from above Susa on the Mont Cenis Road 1836
D29218
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 3a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Saleno [?]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records the view from the Mont Cenis road above Susa, looking down the valley towards Turin. The church is that of St Vincent, the parish church of Giaglione. Turner painted a similar view from a higher viewpoint in a watercolour, A View along an Alpine Valley, Probably the Val d’Aosta (private collection).1 Another watercolour, Mountain Scene: Mist Rising (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut),2 shows a closely related view, but whilst painted in a manner suggesting some familiarity with Turner’s work, is certainly not autograph and might instead be the work of Turner’s companion on this tour, H.A.J. Munro of Novar.

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.472 no.1432 as ‘View down the Val d’Aosta’.
2
Exhibited J.M.W. Turner: Works on Paper from American Collections, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, September–November 1975 (82, reproduced).

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Susa Valley from above Susa on the Mont Cenis Road 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-susa-valley-from-above-susa-on-the-mont-cenis-road-r1144770, accessed 25 April 2024.