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 Courmayeur, Towards Mont Blanc and the Aiguille du Géant 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Courmayeur, Towards Mont Blanc and the Aiguille du Géant’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Verso:
Courmayeur, Towards Mont Blanc and the Aiguille du Géant 1802
D04462
Turner Bequest LXXIII 63a
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cormayer’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 63a’ bottom right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Courmayeur, see folio 62 verso of this sketchbook (D04460). The various sketches made nearby in the book are listed with it. Some of the details of the town in this sketch may have been incorporated in Turner’s watercolour St Huges denouncing Vengeance on the Shepherd of Cormayer, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1803 (Sir John Soane’s Museum, London).1

David Blayney Brown
June 2004

1
Wilton 1979, p.341 no.364.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Courmayeur, Towards Mont Blanc and the Aiguille du Géant 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-courmayeur-towards-mont-blanc-and-the-aiguille-du-geant-r1133091, accessed 26 April 2024.