Joseph Mallord William Turner Torrent in the Chartreuse; ?Near Pont Pérant 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner,
Torrent in the Chartreuse; ?Near Pont Pérant
1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Torrent in the Chartreuse; ?Near Pont Pérant 1802
D04524
Turner Bequest LXXIV 31
Turner Bequest LXXIV 31
Pencil, black chalk and white gouache on greyish-buff laid paper, 283 x 212 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 31’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 31’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Exhibition history
1878
National Gallery, London, various dates from 1878 to 1904 (14, as ‘Cascade of the Chartreuse’).
1974
Turner 1775–1851, Royal Academy, London, November 1974–March 1975 (58).
1976
Turner und die Schweiz, Kunsthaus, Zürich, October 1976–January 1977 (1).
1978
¿¿¿¿¿¿, Shipka Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, ?April[–May] 1978, Belgrade, Serbia [former Yugoslavia], May 1978, Muzeul de Arte al RS [Republica Socialista]. Romania, Bucharest, June–July 1978 (13).
1981
J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) / ¿¿.¿.G. ¿e¿¿e¿ (1775–1851), National Pinakothiki, Athens, January–March 1981 (11).
1981
Turner en France: aquarelles, peintures, dessins, gravures, carnets de croquis / Turner in France: Watercolours, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Sketchbooks, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, October 1981–January 1982 (5/10).
2006
Drawing from Turner, Tate Gallery, November 2006–April 2007 (no catalogue).
References
1902
E.T. Cook (ed.), Ruskin on Pictures: A Collection of Criticisms by John Ruskin not heretofore Re-printed and now Re-edited and Re-arranged, London 1902, vol.I, p.102, as ‘Cascade of the Chartreuse’.
1903
Charles Holme (ed.), Robert de la Sizeranne, Walter Shaw Sparrow and others, The Genius of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London, Paris and New York 1903, reproduced Pl.45: MW 22.
1904
E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn (eds.), Library Edition: The Works of John Ruskin: Volume XIII: Turner: The Harbours of England; Catalogues and Notes, London 1904, pp.375, 609.
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.198, LXXIV 31.
1974
Martin Butlin, Andrew Wilton and John Gage, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy, London 1974, p.46.
1976
Andrew Wilton, Turner und die Schweiz, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthaus, Zürich 1976 (no individual catalogue entry).
1978
Timothy Clifford, ¿¿¿¿¿¿, exhibition catalogue, Shipka Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria 1978, p.4 reproduced.
1981
Dimitrios Papastamos, John Gage and Lindsay Stainton, J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) / ¿¿.¿.G. ¿e¿¿e¿ (1775–1851), exhibition catalogue, National Pinakothiki, Athens 1981, pp.70, 73 reproduced in colour.
1981
Lindsay Stainton, in Maurice Guillaud and others, Turner en France: aquarelles, peintures, dessins, gravures, carnets de croquis / Turner in France: Watercolours, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Sketchbooks, exhibition catalogue, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris 1981, pp.68, 57 reproduced fig.99.
1984
Timothy Clifford and Torsten Gunnarsson, J.M.W. Turner: Akvareller Målningar Grafik, exhibition catalogue, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm 1984, p.8.
1996
Gillian Forrester, Turner’s ‘Drawing Book’: The Liber Studiorum, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1996, p.115 note 1.
For Turner’s visit to the Chartreuse in 1802 see Introduction to the sketchbook.
This mountain stream or fall is probably in the Gorges du Guiers Mort below Pont Pérant (see, from this sketchbook, D04523; Turner Bequest LXXIV 30). Turner’s Liber Studiorum plate Mill, near the Grande Chartreuse: – Dauphiny is perhaps an elaboration of this drawing, or at least of the memories it evoked, since it shows a river gushing over rocks. However, the composition is different and includes a wooden bridge over the gorge. For the study for the plate see Tate D08156; Turner Bequest CXVIII B.
At Tate Britain’s exhibition Drawing from Turner in 2006–7 this drawing was exhibited with copies by Sarah Praill and Tony Rodgers; further copies by Cath Hughes, Rachel Sopher and Chris Webster were reproduced on the exhibition website.
Verso:
Blank, inscribed perhaps by a later hand in pencil ‘13’
David Blayney Brown
September 2007
How to cite
David Blayney Brown, ‘Torrent in the Chartreuse; ?Near Pont Pérant 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www
