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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Val d'Aosta from near Morgex, with Châtelard Castle and La Grivola 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Val d'Aosta from near Morgex, with Châtelard Castle and La Grivola’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Val d’Aosta from near Morgex, with Châtelard Castle and La Grivola 1802
D04563
Turner Bequest LXXIV 70
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper, 216 x 282 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 70’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this as one of 22 leaves from this sketchbook found ‘in a parcel labelled by Mr. Ruskin – “M. 16. Leaves of S. 229. Laid down.” They have been mounted on cartridge by Mr. Ruskin.’ Evidently, Ruskin isolated these drawings because they were pencil outlines, without the additions of chalk or gouache found elsewhere in the sketchbook. The subject was recognised by David Hill as a view south-eastwards with the Castle of Châtelard on the left and the morning sun over the peak of La Grivola on the right.
Verso:
Laid down

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Val d’Aosta from near Morgex, with Châtelard Castle and La Grivola 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-val-daosta-from-near-morgex-with-chatelard-castle-and-la-r1146428, accessed 24 April 2024.