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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches: Two of the Fort of L'Esseillon in the Maurienne Valley and St Michel de Maurienne 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches: Two of the Fort of L'Esseillon in the Maurienne Valley and St Michel de Maurienne’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Three Sketches: Two of the Fort of L’Esseillon in the Maurienne Valley and St Michel de Maurienne 1836
D29226
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 7a
Pencil on white wove paper, 148 x 104 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bre[...?]l’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches, drawn with the page upright and inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook:
i. L’Esseillon from below
ii. L’Esseillon from below, a more distant view that that above, and close to the composition of a watercolour study, The Fort of L’Esseillon (National Gallery of Wales, Cardiff).1
iii. St Michel de Maurienne from below, looking over the church and fort at the left, to Mont Breguin, inscribed ‘Bre...’ above.

David Hill
June 2010

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.471 no.1431 as ‘Swiss Mountains’.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches: Two of the Fort of L’Esseillon in the Maurienne Valley and St Michel de Maurienne 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-three-sketches-two-of-the-fort-of-lesseillon-in-the-r1144778, accessed 18 May 2024.