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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Near Passy; the Pointe Noire de Pormenaz and Le Brévent from the Servoz Road 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Near Passy; the Pointe Noire de Pormenaz and Le Brévent from the Servoz Road’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Recto:
Near Passy; the Pointe Noire de Pormenaz and Le Brévent from the Servoz Road 1802
D04450
Turner Bequest LXXIII 55
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Above St Martin’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 55’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Passy and the old Servoz road, which Turner took towards Mont Blanc and Chamonix, see inside front cover and folios 1 and 54 of this sketchbook (D04393, D04449). The road led up the slopes of the Plateau d’Assy towards Passy. David Hill, in correspondence with the author, has identified the mountains in this sketch.1 For other sketches in this sketchbook made nearby or from the Servoz road, see inside front cover and folios 56–62, 73–5 (D04451–D04459, D04482–D04486).
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Letter to David Blayney Brown, 4 April 2004, Tate catalogue files.
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David Blayney Brown
June 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Near Passy; the Pointe Noire de Pormenaz and Le Brévent from the Servoz Road 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, 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-near-passy-the-pointe-noire-de-pormenaz-and-le-brevent-from-r1133079, accessed 22 September 2024.