A watermill in an alpine valley

Details

Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851)
A watermill in an alpine valley
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour
7 5/8 x 5¼ in. (19.5 x 13.5 cm.)

Provenance

with Peter Nahum, London.

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Lot Essay

The present watercolour can be related to the group of drawings Turner made on his visit to Sisteron in the French Alps in the late 1830s (the exact date of the trip has not been firmly established). Some derive from pencil sketches in the Genoa to Grenoble sketchbook (T.B. CCXCV). Other examples from this trip can be found in C. Nugent and M. Croal, Turner watercolours from Manchester, exhibition catalogue, Washington and Manchester, 1996, pp. 100-1, nos. 65-6.

We are grateful to Ian Warrell for dating the present watercolour.

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