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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin A Lake in the Pass of Mount Cenis c.1796

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘A Lake in the Pass of Mount Cenis’ c.1796
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
A Lake in the Pass of Mount Cenis c.1796
D36561
Turner Bequest CCCLXXVI 2
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 135 x 193 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXVI – 2’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Provenance:
Probably commissioned by Dr Thomas Monro
Monro’s posthumous sale, Christie’s, London, 26–28 June and 1–2 July 1833 (day and lot number not known)
Bought by or on behalf of Turner
The pencil work is by Girtin. This was copied from a sketch by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797), recorded in Beaumont tracing no.83 (after Cozens; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).1
1
Bell and Girtin 1935, p.50 under no.180.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by Girtin ‘Lake on the top of Mt Cenis’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Lake in the Pass of Mount Cenis c.1796 by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-thomas-girtin-a-lake-in-the-pass-of-mount-cenis-r1141291, accessed 25 April 2024.