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

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$ 2 500 000
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09.11.2022 19:00UTC -04:00
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ID 838961
Lot 56 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

The Lungernsee by Moonlight, Switzerland

pencil and watercolor with some pen dipped in color, on wove paper watermarked 'JWhatman/ 1846'

15 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. (38.4 x 56.2 cm).

Executed circa 1848





Provenance

Sophia Caroline Booth.

Lewin Barned Mozley; sale, Christie’s, London, 27 May 1865, lot 183 (titled A Mountain Lake in Switzerland; evening effect; to Vokins).

with Thomas Agnew and Sons, London.

John Heugh; sale, Christie's, London, 24 April 1874, lot 83 (titled Lake Nemi, to Agnew).

with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.

John Knowles (acquired from the above); sale, Christie's, London, 19 May 1877, lot 92 (to Agnew).

with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.

William Carver (acquired from the above).

Mrs. Williams.

C.W. Dyson Perrins.

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 April 1959, lot 68.

Leggatt and Agnew (acquired at the above sale).

Mrs. C. W. Garnett (by 1967).

with Richard Green, London.

Guy and Myriam Ullens; sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2007, lot 4.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

W. Armstrong, Turner, 1902, p. 268 (titled Lake Nemi and dated circa 1840 (Mrs Williams)).

A. Wilton, The Life and Work of JMW Turner, Zürich, 1979, p. 487, no. 1560 (titled Lake Nemi).

E. Joll, Turner, London, 1986, pp. 268-269, no. 111 (titled Lake Nemi and dated circa 1848-1850).

R. Upstone, Turner: The Final Years, London, 1993, p. 66, no. 68 (titled Lake Nemi).

I. Warrell, Through Switzerland with Turner, London, 1995, p. 155, Finished Watercolours of c.1845-51, no. 7 (titled possibly Lake Nemi).

E. Shanes, Turner the Great Watercolours, London, 2000, p. 237, no. 109 (titled A Swiss Lake and dated circa 1848).

A. Wilton, William Turner, Licht und Farbe, Ostfildern, 2002, pp. 243 and 360, no. 187 (titled A Swiss Lake: The Lungernsee and dated circa 1848).

J. Piggott, "Salerooms Report" in Turner Society News, no. 107, December 2007, p. 14.

E. Shanes, The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner, London, 2008, pp. 238-239 (titled The Lungerer See, Switzerland, and dated circa 1848).

D. Hill, "The Lungernsee and Brunig Pass" in Sublimesites online blog, 1 February 2014.

M. Krause, "Mrs Booth’s Turners" in British Art Journal, 2021, vol. XXII, no.1, p. 8.



Exhibited

London, Leggatt Brothers, Turner, 1960, no.13 (titled Lake Nemi).

London, Agnew's, 150th Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings and Watercolours by JMW Turner, RA, 1967, no. 78 (titled Lake Nemi).

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Turner, 1986, no. 111 (titled Lake Nemi).

London, Tate Gallery, Turner: The Final Years, 1993, no. 68 (titled Lake Nemi).

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Turner: The Great Watercolours, 2000, no. 109 (titled A Swiss Lake and dated circa 1848).

Kunsthaus Zürich, William Turner, Licht und Farbe, 2002, no. 187 (titled A Swiss Lake: The Lungernsee and dated circa 1848).



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