Flüelen, from the Lake of Lucerne
Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851) · 1845 · watercolor with gouache and scratch-away
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About this picture
Flüelen, from the Lake of Lucerne is a CC0 drawing by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851), dated 1845. Watercolor with gouache and scratch-away. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Flüelen, from the Lake of Lucerne” (1845) 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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