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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Les Échelles, Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Les Échelles, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Verso:
?Les Échelles, Savoy 1819
D14091
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 62 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is tentatively identified as a view of the countryside near Les Échelles, a village which lies on the River Guiers Vif in Savoy. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 63 (D14092).
Further sketches relating to Les Échelles can be found on folios 70, 71 and 71 verso (D14106, D14108, D14109), and in the Return from Italy sketchbook (see Tate D16703; Turner Bequest CXCII 32).

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Les Échelles, Savoy 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-les-chelles-savoy-r1142950, accessed 25 April 2024.