Joseph Mallord William Turner

Fort Bard, 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: D29291
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 43 a

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This is a very hasty note of the view of Fort Bard, Val d’Aosta, from the north, possibly on the main road from Verres, with the church spire framed in the cusp of the valley to the left of the fort. Although amounting to no more than a few scrappy lines, this seems to be almost exactly the view in Turner’s watercolour of Fort Bard (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight).1

David Hill
June 2010

Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.481 no.1515.

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