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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Mont Blanc Massif, Le Chetif and Courmayeur from above Dolonne in the Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Mont Blanc Massif, Le Chetif and Courmayeur from above Dolonne in the Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Verso:
The Mont Blanc Massif, Le Chetif and Courmayeur from above Dolonne in the Val d’Aosta 1836
D29195
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 83a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook, this sketch encompasses the Mont Blanc range from the Dent del Gigante to the left, to the Grandes Jorasses at the right, with Le Chetif to the left, and to the right the crags and ridge of La Saxe. It is taken from a viewpoint on the Col d’Arp path above the now-destroyed site of the baths of Font Vittoria, over the river from Dolonne, looking down on Dolonne at the lower edge, with Courmayeur across the Val d’Aosta to the right.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Mont Blanc Massif, Le Chetif and Courmayeur from above Dolonne 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-le-chetif-and-courmayeur-from-above-r1144743, accessed 23 April 2024.