Joseph Mallord William Turner

?Mountains near Les Échelles, Savoy

1820

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Return from Italy Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 98 × 128 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D16699
Turner Bequest CXCII 30

Catalogue entry

This very rough sketch of a mountainous landscape is tentatively identified as a view of the Chartreuse Mountains near the village of Les Échelles in Savoy. Finberg suggested that the view depicted was either the lake of Mont Cenis or the Gorge de Chailles in Savoy.1 However, similar drawings can be found on folios 31–32 and 33 (D16699–D16701 and D16702; Turner Bequest CXCII 30–31 and 32) and the current identification is proposed on the basis of inscriptions on folios 31 verso and 33 (D16700 and D16702; Turner Bequest CXCII 30a and 32).

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.572.

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