John Constable

The Hay Wain

US$ 627.00

A farm cart stands in the shallow water of the Stour outside Willy Lott’s cottage, under the moving cloud that Constable studied more closely than any painter before him. Nothing happens in it, which is rather the point. It is the most reproduced landscape in British art, and it holds up at scale because so much of it is sky.

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Artist

John Constable (1776-1837) painted the few square miles of Suffolk he grew up in, over and over, at a time when English taste wanted Italian scenery and classical ruins. He made full-size oil sketches before the final canvas, a practice almost unheard of then. France recognised him before England did — this painting won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824 and made a deep impression on Delacroix, who reworked a canvas of his own after seeing it.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 48 × 34 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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