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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851
J. M. W. Turner - Grenoble Seen from the River Drac
with Mont Blanc in the Distance 1802
 Grenoble Seen from the River Drac with Mont Blanc in the Distance |
From Tate Britain Gallery:
This oil sketch of Grenoble in France, with Mont St Eynard and the snow-capped Mont Blanc in the distance, was painted after Turner’s 1802 tour, while his recollection of the landscape was fresh. The tour yielded over a hundred drawings of Grenoble and surrounding mountains. In his Grenoble sketchbook Turner made vigorous drawings in pencil and white and black chalk on tinted brown paper – opaque media that allowed him to work with dramatic light and dark tones, in preparation for finished oil paintings. On the strength of these drawings, several paintings, larger in scale