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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Fort Bard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Chambéry from the South 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chambéry from the South’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
Chambéry from the South 1836
D29236
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 12a
Pencil on white wove paper, 148 x 104 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Chambéry is seen here from the south, looking over the town towards the Lac du Bourget, with the sharp ridge of the Croix du Nivolet to the right, and continued to the right above. Turner recorded similar material in a watercolour study (on the London art market in 1996).1

David Hill
June 2010

1
Christie’s sale, London, 2 April 1996, lot 63.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Chambéry from the South 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-chambery-from-the-south-r1144788, accessed 09 May 2024.