Artist: J.M.W. Turner
Date: 1844
Size: 84 x 110 cm
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Turner often painted at Mount Rigi, a mile-high peak in the Swiss Alps that is visible from Lake Lucerne, in the years between 1841 and 1844, but this view from the mountaintop is rare. In fact, Turner produced this work in his studio based on secondary sources for his client Francis McCracken, but the painting was rejected, possibly because McCracken was uncomfortable with the artist’s late style. Also part of the Turner Bequest in 1856, the painting was not seen again until 1974–75, when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in a show to mark the bicentennial of the artist’s birth.
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