拍品专文
This hitherto unrecorded watercolour bears two companion labels on the back with the number '641953' and the identification 'Courmayeur'. However the site has now been identified as Chambéry and related to two drawings in the 'Fort Bard' Sketchbook used by Turner on his 1836 tour with H.A.J. Monro of Novar through France to Switzerland (Turner Bequest CCXCIV, pp.20 (verso) and 26 (verso); see A. Wilton, Turner in his Time, 1987, p.206). The drawings show the topography of Chambéry in considerably more detail but the main forms of the landscape are the same as those on page 26 (verso) of the sketchbook. For similar watercolours of the same size associated with the 1836 tour see Turner Bequest CCCLXIV-152, 128 and 121 (A. Lyles, Turner The Fifth Decade, exhibition catalogue, London, Tate Gallery, February-May 1992, pp. 79-80 nos. 60, 62 and 63, illustrated in colour), particularly the last.