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Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
Lake of Zug: Early Morning, 1843
Watercolor on paper; 11 3/4 x 18 3/8 in. (29.8 x 46.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Fund, 1959 (59.120)
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This work belongs to a set of six Swiss views from 1843. A comparison with its preliminary study (see previous image) reveals greater emphasis on the shadows, which Turner consolidated with tiny flecks of his brush. The critic John Ruskin long coveted this work, which he eventually acquired from its original owner, the Scotsman Munro of Novar (1797–1864), who found it "too blue."
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