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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches in the Maurienne Valley near ?St Julien Mont Denis 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches in the Maurienne Valley near ?St Julien Mont Denis’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Two Sketches in the Maurienne Valley near ?St Julien Mont Denis 1836
D29234
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 11a
Pencil on white wove paper, 148 x 104 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Dav [or Dar]’, ‘St Laurent [?]’, ‘Denis [?]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches, drawn with the page upright:
i. (main sketch, bottom) The left-hand part of double-page spread continued to the right on the facing page (D29235; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 12), recording a view along a relatively straight stretch of road and flat valley floor, to a village and church spire to the left, with a large jagged mountain behind, possibly the Croix des Têtes. The sketch might be inscribed ‘Dav [or Dar]’ and ‘St Laurent [?]’, but the readings are extremely uncertain and not readily identifiable with modern place names in the area.
ii. (top) View in the Maurienne Valley, possibly looking down the valley from near St Martin towards St Julien Mont Denis, inscribed ‘Denis [?]’.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches in the Maurienne Valley near ?St Julien Mont Denis 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-two-sketches-in-the-maurienne-valley-near-st-julien-mont-r1144786, accessed 25 April 2024.