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 Villeneuve and the Château d'Argent, Looking towards St Pierre, Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Villeneuve and the Château d'Argent, Looking towards St Pierre, Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Villeneuve and the Château d’Argent, Looking towards St Pierre, Val d’Aosta 1836
D29320
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘58’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 58’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta, is seen here from upstream with the lower bridge and old church in centre, Château d’Argent above right, and the Château of St Pierre in the distance, left.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Villeneuve and the Château d’Argent, Looking towards St Pierre, Val d’Aosta 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-villeneuve-and-the-chateau-dargent-looking-towards-st-pierre-r1144870, accessed 16 April 2024.