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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Façade of Castello Reale, Moncalieri; and a Landscape View ?from the Castle 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Façade of Castello Reale, Moncalieri; and a Landscape View ?from the Castle’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
The Façade of Castello Reale, Moncalieri; and a Landscape View ?from the Castle 1819
D14185
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 20 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 186 x 111 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘2’ within sketch, and ‘4 [?in between] [sketch] 22’, and ‘Monte Calieri’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Turner’s inscription in the bottom left-hand corner indicates, this page contains sketches relating to Moncalieri (‘Monte Calieri’), a town approximately five miles south of Turin. The largest study depicts a view looking east across the southern façade of the Castello Reale, a residence of the ruling House of Savoy which stands on high ground to the north of Moncalieri.1 The castle’s distinctive design is characterised by three galleries connected at the ends by square angular towers, while in this view additionally can be seen the round towers framing the main entrance. A separate landscape sketch can be seen at the top of the page, probably depicting the view seen from the Castello Reale hill.
For a list of further views of Moncalieri see folio 17 (D14176; Turner Bequest CLXXIV 16).

Nicola Moorby
December 2012

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First identified by Finberg 1930, p.163.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘The Façade of Castello Reale, Moncalieri; and a Landscape View ?from the Castle 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-facade-of-castello-reale-moncalieri-and-a-landscape-view-r1142708, accessed 22 August 2025.