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Move between the bright village view on the left and the shaded lane on the right, watching for white flecks across the wet ground.
Constable described a summer morning after overnight rain when discussing this painting. Brush and palette knife left the surface rough, with pale marks suggesting sparkling moisture. This large canvas was a full-scale sketch for a finished picture he never made, so its energetic handling belongs to a stage of preparation.
Oil on canvas · 126 × 169 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Romanticism
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- Museum title
- Stoke-by-Nayland
- Artist
- John Constable (English, 1776-1837)
- Date
- 1836
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 126 × 169 cm (49 5/8 × 66 1/2 in.); Framed: 170.2 × 212.1 × 16.6 cm (67 × 83 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.