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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Château d'Argent above Villeneuve, Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Château d'Argent above Villeneuve, Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
The Château d’Argent above Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta 1836
D29321
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 58a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This very scrappy sketch, made in great haste, glimpses Château d’Argent at Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta. There is what appears to be a chapel above right, now replaced by a statue of the Madonna.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Château d’Argent above Villeneuve, 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-chateau-dargent-above-villeneuve-val-daosta-r1144871, accessed 20 April 2024.