J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking up the Val d'Aosta from below St Vincent to Ussel, Chatillon and Cly 1836

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking up the Val d'Aosta from below St Vincent to Ussel, Chatillon and Cly’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Looking up the Val d’Aosta from below St Vincent to Ussel, Chatillon and Cly 1836
D34883
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 391
Pencil on paper, 257 x 280 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 391’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘391’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study relates to Turner’s 1836 tour of the Alps, which he made in the company of the wealthy Scottish landowner H.A.J. Munro of Novar; for more information, see the Introduction to this section.
The Turner scholar David Hill identified this study as a view up Italy’s Val d’Aosta towards Ussel, Chatillon and Cly; he demonstrated that Turner’s vantage point was from below Saint-Vincent.1 The fourteenth-century castle of Ussel is seen on the left, while the castle of Cly is seen in the centre distance.2
For other studies made on loose sheets related to Turner’s visit to the town of Chatillon in the lower Aosta valley, see D34889 and D34906 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 395 and 412). Turner also made various studies from, and of, the town in his sketchbooks (Tate D29221, D29268, D29269, D29276, D29313, D29314, and D41206; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 5, 30, 30 a, 35 a, 54 a, and 55).
1
Hill 2000, pp.[226], [227], 288–289.
2
Ibid, p.289.
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Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Looking up the Val d’Aosta from below St Vincent to Ussel, Chatillon and Cly 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-looking-up-the-val-daosta-from-below-st-vincent-to-ussel-r1204607, accessed 05 April 2026.