View of Lucerne
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1840/41 · Watercolor, with scraping on white wove paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
View of Lucerne is a public-domain drawing by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated 1840/41. Watercolor, with scraping on white wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“View of Lucerne” (1840/41) treats light as the subject. In Turner’s later pictures, ships, storms, and sunrises dissolve, and he showed those canvases as finished works.
About the artist
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) was an English landscape painter. His late pictures dissolve ships, storms, and sunrises into light, and he exhibited them as finished works, not sketches.
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