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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Château d'Argent, above Villeneuve, Val d'Aosta 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Château d'Argent, above Villeneuve, Val d'Aosta’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Château d’Argent, above Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta 1802
D40200
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper, 218 x 282 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is on the verso of D04582; Turner Bequest LXXIV 89, which has a subject perhaps in the Val d’Aosta. The present subject is certainly in the valley, being a quick first impression of Château d’Argent, above Villeneuve, with Mount Emilius in the background. Turner made a more finished version in this sketchbook (D04500; Turner Bequest LXXIV 8) which led in turn to a colour study made after he returned to England (Tate D04895, Turner Bequest LXXX B).

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Château d’Argent, above Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-chateau-dargent-above-villeneuve-val-daosta-r1146460, accessed 19 April 2024.