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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Sketches in the Arve Valley at Cluses and Sallanches 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Sketches in the Arve Valley at Cluses and Sallanches’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Five Sketches in the Arve Valley at Cluses and Sallanches 1836
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Turner Bequest CCXCIII 28a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?] St Gervais’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains five sketches, made with the page held upright, working down the page from the outside edge:
i. A bridge, with a village to left and church spire, and a valley hemmed in by mountains beyond. The site is perhaps Cluses in the Arve Valley.
ii., iii. A panorama of mountains in the Arve Valley, possibly near Bonneville or Sallanches.
iv. Sallanches from near St Martin.
v. Mont Blanc from the Arve Valley near Sallanches. Turner sketched a similar view on his first visit to the area in 1802 (Tate D04603; Turner Bequest LXXV 11), and developed that into a finished watercolour, perhaps for Walter Fawkes, about 1809 (private collection).1

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, London 1979, p.342 no. 379; sold Sotheby’s, London, 14 July 1994, no.130.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Five Sketches in the Arve Valley at Cluses and Sallanches 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-five-sketches-in-the-arve-valley-at-cluses-and-sallanches-r1144636, accessed 25 April 2024.