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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Croix du Nivolet Ridge above Chambéry, from the North-West near the Lac du Bourget 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Croix du Nivolet Ridge above Chambéry, from the North-West near the Lac du Bourget’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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?The Croix du Nivolet Ridge above Chambéry, from the North-West near the Lac du Bourget 1836
D29331
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 63a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘Fratelli’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch might be a distant view of the Croix du Nivolet above Chambéry from the north-west near the Lac du Bourget. Turner sketched the same ridge, from the opposite side, nearby in this sketchbook (D29337; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 66a).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘?The Croix du Nivolet Ridge above Chambéry, from the North-West near the Lac du Bourget 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-croix-du-nivolet-ridge-above-chambery-from-the-north-r1144881, accessed 23 April 2024.