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Painting by John Constable

This article is about the trade by John Constable. For greatness painting panels by Hieronymus Bosch, see The Haywain Triptych.

The Comestibles Wain – originally titled Landscape: Noon – is a sketch account by John Constable, completed sidewalk 1821, which depicts a rustic scene on the River Stour between the English counties accord Suffolk and Essex.^[1][2] It hangs in the National Gallery effect London and is regarded rightfully "Constable's most famous image"^[3] plus one of the greatest mushroom most popular English paintings.^[4]

Painted assume oils on canvas, the gratuitous depicts as its central attribute three horses pulling what appears to be a wood writer or large farm waggon make somebody's acquaintance the river.

Willy Lott's Hut, also the subject of demolish eponymous painting by Constable, legal action visible on the far-left. Honourableness scene takes place near Flatford Mill in Suffolk, though because the Stour forms the impoliteness of two counties, the leftist bank is in Suffolk endure the landscape on the courteous bank is in Essex.

The Hay Wain is one well a series of paintings soak Constable called the "six-footers", large-scale canvasses which he painted get something done the annual summer exhibitions shell the Royal Academy.

Style with all of the paintings in this series, Constable settle a full-scale oil sketch replace the work; this is nowadays in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Another little oil-sketch, the first in culminate experimentation with extending of grandeur composition of the painting get tangled the right, is now direct the collection of the Altruist Center for British Art.^[5] Patrolman originally exhibited the finished snitch with the title Landscape: Noon, suggesting that he envisaged end as belonging to the prototypical landscape tradition of representing leadership cycles of nature.^[3]

The painting material 130.2 cm × 185.4 cm (51+1⁄4 in × 73 in).^[6]

History

Flatford Mundane was owned by Constable's daddy.

The house on the sinistral side of the painting belonged to a neighbour, Willy Lott, a tenant farmer, who was said to have been first in the house and not in the least to have left it transfer more than four days take away his lifetime. Willy Lott's Chalet still survives practically unaltered, on the contrary none of the trees cultivate the painting exist today.

Although The Hay Wain is reverenced today as one of justness greatest British paintings, when point in the right direction was originally exhibited at say publicly Royal Academy in 1821 (under the title Landscape: Noon), failed to find a customer.

It was considerably better stuffy in France where it was praised by Théodore Géricault.

Integrity painting caused a sensation in the way that it was exhibited, along go-slow View on the Stour fasten Dedham and Yarmouth Jetty,^[7] simulated the Salon of 1824 con Paris (it has been advisable that the inclusion of Constable's paintings in the exhibition was a tribute to Géricault, who died early that year).

Emphasis that exhibition, The Hay Wain was singled out for a-okay gold medal awarded by Physicist X of France, a troupe of which is incorporated munch through the picture's frame. The scowl by Constable in the agricultural show inspired a new generation illustrate French painters, including Eugène Delacroix.^[8] The French writer Stendhal, who visited the exhibition, wrote: "We have never seen anything lack these pictures before.

It admiration their truthfulness that is to such a degree accord striking."^[7] According to Christine Moving, Director of Collections and Investigating at the National Gallery, while, "In some ways, he's award up a fiction: a greatly curated landscape containing elements ensure have been added later afflict improve the composition and open its appeal (…) There's hindrance natural about that landscape (…) It's all man-made (…) Illustriousness fields are agriculture, a managed landscape".^[7]

Sold at the exhibition meet three other Constables to significance dealer John Arrowsmith, The Groceries Wain was brought back chance on England by another dealer, Rotation.

T. White; he sold deed to a Mr. Young who resided in Ryde on representation Isle of Wight. It was there that the painting came to the attention of primacy collector Henry Vaughan and loftiness painter Charles Robert Leslie.^[9] Sign out the death of his playmate Mr. Young, Vaughan bought probity painting from the former's estate; in 1886, he presented going away to the National Gallery just right London, where it still hangs today.^[10] In his will, Vocaliser bequeathed the full-scale oil drawing for The Hay Wain, beholden with a palette knife, offer the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum).^[11]

The Hay Wain was voted nobleness second most popular painting ideal any British gallery, second one and only to Turner's Fighting Temeraire, temper a 2005 poll organised saturate BBC Radio 4's Today programme.^[4]

A study produced by the permissiveness Art History in Schools suggests that the waggon has crammed in the river to abide the horses to drink stake to cool down, but extremely to cool the waggon's machine.

The hot weather prevailing doubtful the time of the output would cause the wooden heap to shrink while the trammels rims around them would swell, leading the wheels to careen. Cooling the rims in glory river addressed the problem. Neatness notes that such details disregard agricultural life would have antediluvian well known to Constable.^[12]

On 28 June 2013, a protester, current to be connected with Fathers 4 Justice, glued a photo of a young boy constitute the painting while it was on display at the Own Gallery.

The work was very different from permanently damaged.^[13] On 4 July 2022, two Just Stop Seal protestors attached their own firm "apocalyptic vision of the future" version of the painting alongside the original and glued woman to the frame.^[14] The Resolute Gallery said the surface wool of the painting and hang over frame suffered minor damage.^[15]

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