Stoke-by-Nayland

1836

John Constable (English, 1776-1837)

John Constable produced this full-size oil sketch near the end of his life, for an unrealized painting. It depicts the artist’s favored subject matter: the countryside of his youth in Suffolk, England. He wrote to a friend of this work: “What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o’clock, after a slight shower during the night.” To achieve the effect of sparkling wetness and the freshness of earth and air, Constable painted as much with a palette knife as with a brush, flecking the surface with white highlights as he sketched and scraped the picture into existence.

Status: On View, Gallery 220
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: John Constable
Title: Stoke-by-Nayland
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1836
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 126 × 169 cm (49 5/8 × 66 1/2 in.); Framed: 169 × 213.4 cm (66 1/2 × 84 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection
Reference Number: 1922.4453
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