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

Lot 68
25.01.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 68 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
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$ 500 000 – 800 000
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

The Lauerzersee with the Ruins of Schwanau and the Mythen

pencil, pen, grey ink and watercolor with scratching out on paper

22.6 x 28.6 cm (8 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.)





Provenance

Given by the artist to Mrs. Booth, and by descent to her son

Daniel John Pound, by whom given to

Alfred and Kate Austin; Christie's London, 11 June 1909, lot 185 (330 gns. to Agnew's) as 'A view on the Rhine'.

Walter H. Jones; Christie's London, 3 July 1942, lot 49 (420 gns to Agnew's) as 'The Lake of Lucerne: Brunnen in the distance'.

L.B. Murray, 1951, and by descent to his son.

with Agnew's, London, June 1983, where purchased by

D. Hoener; Sotheby's New York, 21 May 1987, lot 30 (£340,000 to A. Taubman).

A. Alfred Taubman.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's London, 11 April 1991, lot 77.

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 9 July 1996, lot 41, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

A.J. Finberg., "Early English Water-Colour Drawings by the Great Masters", The Studio, August 1919, pp. 20 and

45, no. 130, pl. XX.

A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg and London, 1979, pp. 478-9, no. 1488.

'News and Sales Record', Turner Studies, 7, no. 1, summer 1987, p. 64.

E. Shanes, ‘Picture Notes: The Lauerzer See, with the Mythens (Victoria and Albert Museum), and The Lauerzer See wth Schwytz and the Mythen (Private collection)’, Turner Studies, 7, no. 2, winter 1987, pp. 58-9.

‘News and Sales Record,’ Turner Studies, 11, no. 1, p. 60.

I. Warrell, Through Switzerland with Turner, London, 1995, p. 71, under cat. 32.

Christie's Review of the Year, London, 1996, p. 49.

E. Shanes, Turner, The Great Watercolours, London, 2000, p. 238, under cat. 110.

E. Shanes, La Vie et les chefs d'oeuvre de J.M.W. Turner, New York, 2008, p. 239.



Exhibited

London, Agnew's, Watercolours, 1910, no. 184, as ‘On the Rhine’.

London, Agnew's, Loan Exhibition of Watercolours by Turner, 1913, no. 117, as [?]‘Lake of Lucerne, Castle on the Left, the town of Brunnen in the centre distance, with the Mythen beyond, Moon rising’.

London, Agnew's, Watercolours, 1919, no. 130, as ‘Lake of Lucerne; Brunnen in the distance’.

London, Agnew's, Centenary Loan Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., in aid of The

Artists' General Benevolent Institution, 1951, no. 96.

London, Agnew's, 150th Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings and Watercolours by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., in aid of The

National Arts Collections Fund, 1967, no. 80, as ‘The Lowerzer See with Schwyz and the Myttenberg in the distance’.

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Turner und die Schweiz, 1976-77, no. 43.

London, Agnew's, Watercolours by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. (1775-1851), 28 February-25 March 1994, no. 8, as ‘The Lauerzersee with Schwyz and the Mythen’.



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