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Brunnen, Lake Lucerne

Maker

(artist)
1775-1851

Title

Brunnen, Lake Lucerne

Date of Production

(circa) 1843 - 1844

Medium

graphite, watercolour, pen and ink (red) on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 24 cm
Width: 29.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1974.STC.13

Mode of Acquisition

Jeanne Courtauld, gift, in memory of Sir Stephen Courtauld, 1974

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

Lake Lucerne and its surroundings were favourite subjects for Turner on his Swiss tours of the 1840s. The town of Brunnen is located on the north-eastern shore of the Bay of Uri, famous for its jade-blue waters. Turner creates a translucent effect in this watercolour, skilfully laying shades of blue over wet yellow washes. Several of the Lucerne sketches were developed into ‘sample’ studies to attract commissions for larger finished watercolours. The Courtauld sheet is close in style to a later ‘sample’ study but it was not executed as a finished work.

Provenance

probably J. Irvine Smith; purchased from him by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Charles Fairfax Murray, London (1849-1919); Cotswold Gallery (London), 1925; purchased there by Sir Stephen Courtauld (1883-1967), 1927; by descent to Jeanne Courtauld, 1972; presented by Jeanne Courtauld in memory of Stephen Courtauld, 1974

Exhibition History

Wild at Heart. Swiss Romanticism from Fuseli to Bocklin, Kunsthaus Zurich, 13/11/2020-14/02/2021

Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/02/2011-15/05/2011

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/2008-25/01/2009 ...More

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England, 16/07/2008-12/10/2008

J.M.W. Turner, 'That Greatest of Landscape Painters' -
Watercolours from London Museums
, Tulsa, USA, 08/02/1998-12/04/1998

Turner, Prout, Steer - Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute
Galleries
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1980

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

Watercolours by J.M.W. Turner from the Sir Stephen Courtauld
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974

Third Annual Exhibition of Water-colours by J.M.W. Turner and other Masters of the English School, Cotswold Gallery, 1925

Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1907 ...Less

Literature

Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, 2011
cat. no. 19
ill. on p. 89

Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld Gallery, Wordsworth Trust; Courtauld Gallery, 2008-2009
no. 20
ill. on p. 107

J.M.W. Turner, 'That Greatest of Landscape Painters' - Watercolours from London Museums, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1998
cat. no. 36 ...More

J.M.W. Turner, "that greatest of landscape painters": watercolors from London museums, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1998
no. 38
ill. on p. 149

Through Switzerland with Turner: Ruskin's first selection from the Turner Bequest, Tate Gallery, London, 1995
pp. 72 (under no. 32), 152

Turner Prout Steer Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1980
no. 11 (Turner)

Wilton, Andrew, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, London, 1979
no. 1485

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 31

Kitson, Michael, Watercolours by J.M.W. Turner: Turner watercolours from the collection of Stephen Courtauld, London, Courtauld Institute of Art, 1974
no. 10 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: 1[2nd illegible digit]

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