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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking across Lake Geneva 1836

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking across Lake Geneva’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Looking across Lake Geneva 1836
D34291
Turner Bequest CCCXLII 86
Chalk and pencil on paper, 239 x 320 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLII 86’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram centre right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study relates to Turner’s 1836 tour of the Alps, which he made in the company of the wealthy Scottish landowner H.A.J. Munro of Novar; for more information, see the Introduction to this section.
The present view looks across Lake Geneva (or Lac Leman) to the Mole, a mountain near Bonneville, and Mont Blanc in the distance. For related pencil sketches also made in 1836, see D41097, D29147, D34195 and D34290 (Turner Bequest CCXCIII inside back cover and 59 a, CCCXLII 11 and 85). There are also some related watercolour studies, D36058 (Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 212) and D36109 (Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 262), both of which capture similar views across the lake.
Verso:
The sheet has been laid down on a heavy paper and the verso could not be inspected at the time of cataloguing.

Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Looking across Lake Geneva 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-looking-across-lake-geneva-r1204600, accessed 18 May 2024.