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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Mont Blanc Massif and Le Chetif from above Pré St Didier in the Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Mont Blanc Massif and Le Chetif from above Pré St Didier in the Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
The Mont Blanc Massif and Le Chetif from above Pré St Didier in the Val d’Aosta 1836
D29070
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘20’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 20’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Figures are seen on the road above Pré St Didier, looking up the Val d’Aosta to Le Chetif and the Mont Blanc massif. A similar view is recorded in a watercolour study (Tate D25381; Turner Bequest CCLXIII 258). This sketch is inverted in relation to the main sequence of subjects in the sketchbook.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Mont Blanc Massif and Le Chetif from above Pré St Didier in the Val d’Aosta 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-mont-blanc-massif-and-le-chetif-from-above-pre-st-didier-r1144619, accessed 23 April 2024.