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-East 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chambéry from the South-East’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Chambéry from the South-East 1836
D29339
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 67a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Chambéry is seen here from the road to Les Charmettes to the south-east. Turner painted a similar subject in a watercolour of Chambéry (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-East 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-east-r1144889, accessed 19 September 2024.