Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Tour de St Michel, from near Servoz

1802

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 138 × 215 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04461
Turner Bequest LXXIII 63

Catalogue entry

For the Tour de St Michel, see folios 1 and 61 of this sketchbook (D04393, D04458). As noted by David Hill in correspondence with the author,1 this sketch was made as Turner began his ascent to the village of Les Houches and the Chamonix valley. Turner made further sketches near Les Houches on folios 64 and 72 verso (D04463, D04480), and a drawing in his larger St Gothard and Mont Blanc sketchbook (Tate D04606; Turner Bequest LXXV 14).

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

1
Letter to David Blayney Brown, 4 April 2004, Tate catalogue files.

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