Joseph Mallord William Turner

Château d’Argent above Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta

1836

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Fort Bard Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 104 × 148 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D29323
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 59 a

Catalogue entry

Châtel d’Argent Castle, Val d’Aosta, is viewed here from above the tower house (known as the Tour Colin) at La Crete opposite Villeneuve, with the old church at Villeneuve in the left foreground and the lower bridge to the right. Turner’s inscriptions note ‘Grass’ to the right of the church and ‘R[?ed] color Crag [?]’ below the castle. The scenery here is more or less continued to the left in the sketch on the recto (D29322; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 59).

David Hill
June 2010

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