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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Arve Valley and Tour St Michel from above Servoz 1836

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Arve Valley and Tour St Michel from above Servoz’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Arve Valley and Tour St Michel from above Servoz 1836
D34285
Turner Bequest CCCXLII 82
Chalk and pencil on paper, 242 x 311 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLII 82’ bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘82’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study relates to Turner’s 1836 tour of the Alps, which he made in the company of the wealthy Scottish landowner H.A.J. Munro of Novar; for more information, see the Introduction to this section.
The subject of this study – a view of Mont Blanc and the Castle of St Michael from above Servoz, a village situated between the gorges of La Fayet and Les Houches in the French Alps – was first identified by the Turner scholar David Hill.1 Turner had earlier recorded the view across the Arve Valley towards the Tour St Michel during his 1802 tour of the Alps, also on a loose sheet (Tate D04640; Turner Bequest LXXV 48). In 1836, he also made a slight sketch of the view in the Val d’Aosta sketchbook (Tate D29085; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 27a).
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Hill 2000, p.272.
Verso:
See separate entry for D34286 (Turner Bequest CCCXLII 82v).

Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘The Arve Valley and Tour St Michel from above Servoz 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-arve-valley-and-tour-st-michel-from-above-servoz-r1204594, accessed 17 May 2024.