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 Three Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Recto:
Three Views in the Maurienne Valley, Savoy 1819
D14134
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 85
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 114 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘Arc’ bottom centre of middle sketch
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 85’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches of views within the Maurienne Valley, Savoy. Turner journeyed through the valley en route to the Pass of Mont Cenis. The locations have not been conclusively identified but they are likely to depict scenes from the road approaching the village of St-Michel-de-Maurienne, see folio 85 verso (D14135). As an inscription by the artist indicates, the river winding its way through the heart of the middle study is the River Arc.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Views in the Maurienne Valley, 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-three-views-in-the-maurienne-valley-savoy-r1142993, accessed 18 September 2024.