Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Aiguille du Midi and Glacier des Bossons from near Les Houches

1802

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite and chalk on paper
Dimensions
Support: 138 × 215 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04478
Turner Bequest LXXIII 71 a

Catalogue entry

Ascending the Chamonix valley beyond the village of Les Houches (see folios 64 and 72 of this sketchbook, D04463, D04480), Turner came to the serracs of the Glacier des Bossons tumbling down beside the track, as seen in this sketch and also in a larger coloured drawing (private collection).1

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.340 no.356

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