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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Château d'Argent and Villeneuve, Val d'Aosta, From the West 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Château d'Argent and Villeneuve, Val d'Aosta, From the West’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Recto:
Château d’Argent and Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta, From the West 1836
D29364
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 83
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘83’ top left, running vertically, and with the Turner Bequest schedule number ‘357’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIV 83’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here, Château d’Argent and Villeneuve are seen from the west, on the road to Introd. Turner painted a similar but distinct view in a watercolour of Chatel Argent and Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh).1 This sketch includes a round tower, perhaps Roman, above Villeneuve seen elsewhere in this sketchbook (D29372, D29373; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 87, 88). The tower has now disappeared save for foundations, to be seen on the lower of two terraced mounds by the middle school at Villeneuve.

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.472 no.1434.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Château d’Argent and Villeneuve, Val d’Aosta, From the West 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-chateau-dargent-and-villeneuve-val-daosta-from-the-west-r1144914, accessed 20 September 2024.