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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views near St-Michel-de-Maurienne, Savoy 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views near St-Michel-de-Maurienne, Savoy’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Two Views near St-Michel-de-Maurienne, Savoy 1820
D16677
Turner Bequest CXCII 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 128 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘To St Michel’ top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘19’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CXCII 19’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Turner’s inscription in the top right-hand corner indicates, this page contains two landscapes views within the Maurienne Valley, Savoy, on the approach towards the village of St-Michel-de-Maurienne. For comparable sketches from the outward leg of the journey see the Paris, France, Savoy 2 sketchbook (for example Tate D14140; Turner Bequest CLXXIII 88).

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Views near St-Michel-de-Maurienne, Savoy 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, 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-two-views-near-st-michel-de-maurienne-savoy-r1142576, accessed 25 April 2024.