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

Lot 42
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ID 1441869
Lot 42 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
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£ 600 000 – 800 000
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
Lake Brienz, with the setting Moon
pencil and watercolour with scratching out on paper
9 ¾ x 14 ¼ in. (24.7 x 36.6 cm).




Provenance

Possibly Mrs Sophia Booth.
with Ernest Gambart, London.
with Agnew's, London, October 1865, where purchased by
John Fleming; Christie’s, 22 March 1879, lot 58 (as 'Como') (100 gns to Agnew's).
with Agnew's, London, as 'Como', where purchased by
W. Trotter.
Catherine, Countess of Portsmouth, née Fortescue (1786-1854), and by apparently by descent.
with Richard Green, London, 2002, where purchased by
Baron and Baroness Guy Ullens; Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2007, lot 10.
with Andrew Clayton-Payne, London, by 2013.
The Clode Collection, by 2019.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 27 January 2021, lot 69, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg, 1979, p.476, see no.1470.
E. Shanes, unpublished notes on ‘Lake Lucerne at Dusk’, c.2017.
D. Blayney Brown, Turner: The Sea and the Alps, Lucerne, 2019, pp.110-111, as ‘Lucerne, c.1842’
D. Hill, ‘In Turner’s Footsteps between Lucerne and Thun: no.25 At Brienz’, Sublime Sites online resource, 18 January 2023, as ‘Lake of Brienz from near Kienholz, sunrise, c.1841’.



Exhibited

Lucerne, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Turner: The Sea and The Alps, 6 July-13 October 2019, no catalogue number.
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