Joseph Mallord William Turner

Two Sketches: Mont Blanc from Chamonix and Mont Blanc from near Les Houches

1836

Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)

License this image

Not on display

Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Val d’Aosta Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 113 × 190 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D29084
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 27

Catalogue entry

This page contains two sketches:
i. (main sketch to left) The right half of a two-part panorama of Mont Blanc from Chamonix, looking over the valley to the Glacier des Bossons and the Aiguille du Gouter, continued from D29083; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 26a, opposite. The view is similar to that on the preceding double-page spread, D29081–D29082; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 25a–26, but from a lower viewpoint in the town.
ii. (to the right, drawn with the page in the upright position) Looking up the Arve Valley to Mont Blanc, perhaps from near Les Houches.

David Hill
June 2010

Read full Catalogue entry

Explore

You might like

Left Right