Aosta
Joseph Mallord William Turner
(English, 1775–1851)
1836
Medium/TechniqueTransparent and opaque watercolor
DimensionsSheet: 25.1 x 27.7 cm (9 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit LineErnest W. Longfellow Fund
Accession number42.306
On View
Not on viewClassificationsWatercolors
Collections
ProvenanceJohn Edward Taylor (b. 1830 - d. 1905), London; July 5, 1912, posthumous Taylor sale, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, lot 63, sold for £1470 to Agnew and Sons, London. Probably about 1912, sold by Horace Gibbs to Dorothy Payne Whitney Elmhirst (b. 1887 - d. 1968), New York; transferred to the Westbury Holding Company for sale; May 28, 1942, Elmhirst collection sale, Kende Galleries at Gimbel Bros., New York, lot 188 [see note], to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 9, 1942)
NOTE: As "Lausanne (also known as 'Mountainous Landscape')".
NOTE: As "Lausanne (also known as 'Mountainous Landscape')".
