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 Looking down the Susa Valley from the Mont Cenis Road, with the Sacra di San Michele in the Distance 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking down the Susa Valley from the Mont Cenis Road, with the Sacra di San Michele in the Distance’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Recto:
Looking down the Susa Valley from the Mont Cenis Road, with the Sacra di San Michele in the Distance 1836
D29360
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 81
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘81’ top left, running vertically, and with theTurner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 81’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of the Susa Valley from the Mont Cenis Road with the Sacra di San Michele at the foot of the valley in the distance is similar to that sketched elsewhere in this sketchbook (D29302; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 49), but from a still higher viewpoint. Turner recorded a very similar vista in a watercolour sometimes known as A View along an Alpine Valley, probably the Val d’Aosta (private collection).1

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.472 no.1432 as ‘View down the Val d’Aosta’.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Looking down the Susa Valley from the Mont Cenis Road, with the Sacra di San Michele in the Distance 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-looking-down-the-susa-valley-from-the-mont-cenis-road-with-r1144910, accessed 25 April 2024.