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Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Death Actaeon with a Distant Montjovet Val dAosta
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Actaeon
adults
Artemis / Diana
classical myths: gods and heroes
Dingwall. Novar Estate
figure
Highland
landscape
mountain
people
places
religion and belief
river
Scotland
tree
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
valley
water: inland
<p>The blurred figures and animals in the foreground of this painting are borrowed and reworked from Titian’s late painting <i>The Death of Actaeon</i>. Having intruded on the sacred grove inhabited by Diana and her naked nymphs, the huntsman Actaeon is punished by being torn to pieces by his own hounds.</p><p>Turner sets the action in Italy’s Val d’Aosta, which he had visited in 1836. Unusually, on that occasion he travelled with a companion, the Scottish land-owner and artist HAJ Munro of Novar, who already possessed many of his pictures, and for whom this unfinished work was presumably intended.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
13 August 2001 – 23 June 2002
2002-06-23
13 August 2001 – 23 June 2002
2002-06-23
2001-08-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-08-13
Painting Landscape and History
Collection based display
10 April 2006 – 12 March 2007
2007-03-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-04-10
Impressions and Ideas Turner's Oil Sketches and Studies
Collection based display
12 August 2009 – 19 July 2010
2010-07-19
12 August 2009 – 19 July 2010
2010-07-19
2009-08-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-08-12
Among the Immortals
Collection based display
1 June 2011 – 30 September 2011
2011-09-30
1 June 2011 – 30 September 2011
2011-09-30
2011-06-01
Gainsborough’s House (Sudbury, UK)
2011-06-01
Diana and Actaeon
Loan-out
25 January 2014 – 11 May 2014
2014-05-11
25 January 2014 – 11 May 2014
2014-05-11
2014-01-25
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2014-01-25
Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner.
Loan-out
10 September 2014 – 20 September 2015
2015-09-20
10 September 2014 – 25 January 2015
2015-01-25
2014-09-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-09-10
Late Turner: Painting Set Free
Exhibition
6 July 2019 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
6 July 2019 – 13 October 2019
2019-10-13
2019-07-06
Kunstmuseum (Luzern, Switzerland)
http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
8 November 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
2019-11-08
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
20 February 2020 – 7 September 2020
2020-09-07
2020-02-20
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
15 October 2020 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
2020-10-15
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (Québec, Canada)
http://www.mnba.qc.ca
2019-07-06
The Sea and the Alps: Turner's Quest for the Sublime
Tate partnerships & programmes
12 October 2023 – 28 January 2024
2024-01-28
12 October 2023 – 28 January 2024
2024-01-28
2023-10-12
Reggia di Venaria Reale (Turin, Italy)
2023-10-12
Turner & Mythology
Loan-out
6 July 2024 – 15 January 2028
2028-01-15
6 July 2024 – 1 September 2024
2024-09-01
2024-07-06
Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco)
30 September 2024 – 7 May 2025
2025-05-07
2024-09-30
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
21 June 2025 – 5 October 2025
2025-10-05
2025-06-21
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
1 June 2026 – 1 October 2026
2026-10-01
2026-06-01
External
15 November 2026 – 15 March 2027
2027-03-15
2026-11-15
External
1 May 2027 – 1 September 2027
2027-09-01
2027-05-01
External
15 October 2027 – 15 January 2028
2028-01-15
2027-10-15
External
2024-07-06
Turner's Sublime Legacy
Tate partnerships & programmes
The Death of Actaeon, with a Distant View of Montjovet, Val d’Aosta
support: 1509 × 1125 × 29 mm
frame: 1906 × 1535 × 180 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>The blurred figures and animals in the foreground of this painting are borrowed and reworked from Titian’s late painting <i>The Death of Actaeon</i>. Having intruded on the sacred grove inhabited by Diana and her naked nymphs, the huntsman Actaeon is punished by being torn to pieces by his own hounds. 
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<br/>Turner sets the action in Italy’s Val d’Aosta, which he had visited in 1836. Unusually, on that occasion he travelled with a companion, the Scottish land-owner and artist HAJ Munro of Novar, who already possessed many of his pictures, and for whom this unfinished work was presumably intended. 
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Actaeon adults Artemis / Diana classical myths: gods and heroes Dingwall. Novar Estate figure Highland landscape mountain people places religion and belief river Scotland tree UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions valley water: inland