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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking up the Val d'Aosta, with the Castles of St Pierre to the Right, Sarriod la Tour in the Centre, and Chatel Argent in the Left Distance 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking up the Val d'Aosta, with the Castles of St Pierre to the Right, Sarriod la Tour in the Centre, and Chatel Argent in the Left Distance’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Looking up the Val d’Aosta, with the Castles of St Pierre to the Right, Sarriod la Tour in the Centre, and Chatel Argent in the Left Distance 1836
D34514
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 150
Pencil on white paper, 245 x 305 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 150’ bottom right
Watermark, ‘C ANSELL | 1828’
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.
Turner’s view encompasses three of the castles in Italy’s Aosta Valley, with the castle of St Pierre on the right, Sarriod la Tour in the centre and the Chatel Argent in the distant left. For other studies of the Sarriod de la Tour, see D34513 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 149) and D34890 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 396).
Technical notes:
There is a watermark: ‘C ANSELL 1828’. As well as using sheets such as this one, which he must have taken with him when he travelled to the Alps, Turner also seems to have used some locally purchased paper during his 1836 tour – see the Technical Notes in the entry for D34195 (Turner Bequest CCCXLII 11).
Verso:
Blank, save for inscriptions: stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCCXLIV 150’ bottom right.

Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Looking up the Val d’Aosta, with the Castles of St Pierre to the Right, Sarriod la Tour in the Centre, and Chatel Argent in the Left Distance 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-up-the-val-daosta-with-the-castles-of-st-pierre-to-r1204604, accessed 18 May 2024.