塔伦塔伊塞山谷景观,萨沃伊

Turner has inscribed this view of mountainous scenery as ‘Tarantaise’ suggesting that the subject is the Tarentaise Valley in Savoy. The itinerary of the artist’s return journey between the Mont Cenis Pass and Chambéry did not actually take him through the valley and so this prospect was perhaps observed from a point on the road to the north-west of Aiguebelle, looking east in the direction of Albertville. There appears to be a bridge or other man-made structure visible in the centre of the composition.