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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches near St Michel de Maurienne 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches near St Michel de Maurienne’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Three Sketches near St Michel de Maurienne 1836
D29220
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 4a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches:
i. (main sketch, above) A bridge into a town among mountains, probably in the Maurienne valley between Mont Cenis and Chambéry.
ii. (below) St Michel de Maurienne, the church and town seen across the Maurienne valley.
iii. (right, drawn with the page upright) From the tower of Chambarlet, looking west over St Michel de Maurienne.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Three Sketches near 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-near-st-michel-de-maurienne-r1144772, accessed 24 November 2024.