Joseph Mallord William Turner

?Ascent to the Pass of Mont Cenis

1819

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 114 × 185 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D14035
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 29 a

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This sketch depicts a mountainous landscape with a road and a building at the centre of the composition. The drawing is too rough to be conclusively identified, and the inscription is hard to decipher but it is likely to depict a view from the ascent to the Pass of Mont Cenis in the French Alps. For a more detailed discussion of the Mont Cenis pass and Turner’s related Alpine sketches see the Introduction to the sketchbook.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

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?Ascent to the Pass of Mont Cenis

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Ascent to the Pass of Mont Cenis

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis; and Figure Studies

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of the Approach to Susa from the Pass of Mont Cenis

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lanslebourg, on the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lanslebourg, on the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Mont Cenis Pass

Joseph Mallord William Turner View in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy, on the Road to the Mont Cenis Pass

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Part of a View of the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis; and Mountains

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Mountains, ?on the Road to the Pass of Mont Cenis

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of the Mont Cenis Pass; and Figure Studies

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Mountains, near Mont Cenis

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Mont Cenis

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