Gouache and watercolour on paper
Exhibition watercolours 1804-15
Exhibition watercolours 1804-15
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Battle Fort Rock Val dAouste Piedmont 1796
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
Alps
architecture
army
battle
cloud
countries and continents
diseases and conditions
gorge
groups
history
Italy, Valle d’Aosta
landscape
man
military
military
Napoleonic Wars, 1796-1815
natural features (non-UK)
people
places
road
soldier
townscapes / man-made features
weather
woman
wooded
work and occupations
wounded
<p>Turner exhibited this watercolour, with <span>Lake of Lucerne</span>, at the Royal Academy in 1815 to represent war and peace. Turner thought the war was over, but Napoleon returned from exile and was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June, during the exhibition.The watercolour is set in the Alps. It imagines a battle during the French invasion of northern Italy in 1796. As well as the fighting, Turner shows a man and a woman tending a dead or dying soldier who has fallen off the road. In the other watercolour shown in 1815, a similar-looking young woman is weeping.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2022</em></p>
paper unique gouache watercolour
1 October 2007 – 21 September 2008
2008-09-21
1 October 2007 – 6 January 2008
2008-01-06
2007-10-01
National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA)
10 February 2008 – 18 May 2008
2008-05-18
2008-02-10
Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, USA)
http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org
23 June 2008 – 21 September 2008
2008-09-21
2008-06-23
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2007-10-01
JMW Turner
Tate partnerships & programmes
16 February 2011 – 21 August 2011
2011-08-21
16 February 2011 – 21 August 2011
2011-08-21
2011-02-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2011-02-16
Watercolour
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)
2019-07-06
The Sea and the Alps: Turner's Quest for the Sublime
Tate partnerships & programmes
28 October 2020 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
28 October 2020 – 12 September 2021
2021-09-12
2020-10-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2020-10-28
Turner's Modern World
Exhibition
17 October 2021 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2021-10-17
Turner's Modern World
Loan-out
The Battle of Fort Rock, Val d’Aouste, Piedmont, 1796
support: 696 × 1015 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
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<p>Turner exhibited this watercolour, with <i>Lake of Lucerne</i>, at the Royal Academy in 1815 to represent war and peace. Turner thought the war was over, but Napoleon returned from exile and was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June, during the exhibition.The watercolour is set in the Alps. It imagines a battle during the French invasion of northern Italy in 1796. As well as the fighting, Turner shows a man and a woman tending a dead or dying soldier who has fallen off the road. In the other watercolour shown in 1815, a similar-looking young woman is weeping.</p>
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