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 A Bluff on the Dora Baltea River in the Val d'Aosta, Looking towards Aymavilles and the Château d'Argent from near Sarre 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bluff on the Dora Baltea River in the Val d'Aosta, Looking towards Aymavilles and the Château d'Argent from near Sarre’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
A Bluff on the Dora Baltea River in the Val d’Aosta, Looking towards Aymavilles and the Château d’Argent from near Sarre 1836
D29318
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 57
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘Auondo’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘57’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 57’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of a bluff on the Dora Baltea river, looking up the Val d’Aosta from near Sarre, effectively continues the sketch on the facing page of the sketchbook (D29317; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 56a) to the right. Aymavilles Church stands at the left, and the Château d’Argent and the spire of the convent at St Pierre at the right. Turner painted the same material but in a distinct treatment in a watercolour study of From Sarre Looking Towards Aymavilles in the Val d’Aosta (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).1

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, London 1979, p.471 no.1430 as ‘A scene in the Val d’Aosta’.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Bluff on the Dora Baltea River in the Val d’Aosta, Looking towards Aymavilles and the Château d’Argent from near Sarre 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-a-bluff-on-the-dora-baltea-river-in-the-val-daosta-looking-r1144868, accessed 18 April 2024.