Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner(British, 1775–1851)British, 1775–1851
CultureBritish
Titles
- A Distant View of Chambery from the North, with Storm Clouds
Date1836
MediumWatercolor on wove paper, squared
DimensionsImage/sheet: 9 3/4 × 10 3/4 in. (24.8 × 27.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of the past presidents and members of the Houston Art League, the Museum’s founding organization
Object number2020.404
Not on view
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Department
Prints and DrawingsSpecial Collections
Object Type
purchased by Horace Gibbs, 1912 (for £1155 / 1100 guineas); purchased by or through Horace Gibbs for Mrs. Willard Straight (née Dorothy Payne Whitney, later Mrs Leonard K. Elmhirst), 1912–42; possibly transferred to the Westbury Holding Company for sale, 1942; [Kende Galleries at Gimbel Bros., New York, Valuable Paintings-Important Silver-Rugs-Furniture-Chinese Art-Property of The Westbury Holding Corporation collected by Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst (Mrs. Willard D. Straight)-The Former Miss Dorothy Payne Whitney, May 28, 1942, lot 190]; [Vose Galleries, Boston, MA]; Mrs. Robert Choate, Danvers, MA (1900-1987), by 1946-1983; [Leger Galleries, London, 983-1984]; [London, Christie’s, London, Important English Drawings and Watercolours, July 10, 1984, lot 238 (under “The Property of a Lady,” as View over an Alpine Valley, probably Val d’Aosta, c. 1836)]; private collection, acquired from the above, 1984; by descent, 2018; [London, Libson Yarker Ltd, 2019-2020]; purchased by the MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
None noted.
No watermark visible. Other watercolors from this 1836 trip have the watermark: B,E / 182
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