JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Lot 78
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Lot 78 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
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JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

The River Aare at Thun, looking towards Lake Thun, with the Niesen and the Bernese Alps beyond

pencil and watercolor on paper

9 ¾ x 14 ¼ in. (24.8 x 36.2 cm.)





Provenance

John Edward Taylor; Christies, London, 1912, lot 72 (as 'A View of the Rhine. A View along the river, with buildings on both banks; snow-clad mountains in the distance') (1,300 gns to Agnew’s), where purchased by

Baroness Goldschmidt-Rothschild, 5 July 1912.

Vernon Wethered, by 1936 and by descent to his son,

Vernon D. Wethered; Christie's, London, 2 March 1976, lot 125 (13,000 gns to Agnew's).

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 March 1984, lot 185.

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 7 November 1995, lot 78, where purchased.



Literature

A. Wilton, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg, 1979, p. 487, no. 1559, illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Winter Exhibition, 1936-7, no. 94 (as the Lake of Geneva).
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