Castle on Height near Geneva
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1836 · Watercolor, with scraping, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, edge mounted to cream card
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Castle on Height near Geneva is a public-domain drawing by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated 1836. Watercolor, with scraping, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, edge mounted to cream card. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Castle on Height near Geneva” (1836) 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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