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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sarriod la Tour, above St Pierre in the Val d'Aosta, Looking up the Valley to Chatel Argent 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sarriod la Tour, above St Pierre in the Val d'Aosta, Looking up the Valley to Chatel Argent’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Sarriod la Tour, above St Pierre in the Val d’Aosta, Looking up the Valley to Chatel Argent 1836
D34513
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 149
Pencil on paper, 272 x 296 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 149’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘149’ bottom 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.
As the Turner scholar David Hill has determined, this sheet depicts the Sarriod de la Tour Castle in the town of Saint-Pierre in Italy’s Aosta Valley.1 The stone structure was in place by the twelfth-century, but was greatly expanded during the fifteenth-century by the Sarriod family. Another sketch, D34890 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 396) records a slightly more distant view of the castle.
1
Hill 2000, p.199.
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Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Sarriod la Tour, above St Pierre in the Val d’Aosta, Looking up the Valley to Chatel Argent 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-sarriod-la-tour-above-st-pierre-in-the-val-daosta-looking-up-r1204603, accessed 18 May 2024.