Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Isère Valley near Grenoble

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
D04490
Turner Bequest LXXIII 77 a

Catalogue entry

For Grenoble see folio 76 verso of this sketchbook (D04488). This is a view up the flat base of the Isère valley, taken from the east of the city near the Lyon road and looking towards Mont Blanc.

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

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