River Bank with Trees (recto); Herd of Cattle Beneath Trees, with Inset Sketch of Landscape (verso)
John Constable · 1796/1837 · Black pastel (recto and verso) on brown wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
River Bank with Trees (recto); Herd of Cattle Beneath Trees, with Inset Sketch of Landscape (verso) is a public-domain drawing by John Constable, dated 1796/1837. Black pastel (recto and verso) on brown wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“River Bank with Trees (recto); Herd of Cattle Beneath Trees, with Inset Sketch of Landscape (verso)” (1796/1837) comes out of Constable’s Suffolk studies: clouds, canals, and mills sketched in oil outdoors, then used for a larger picture.
About the artist
John Constable (1776–1837) painted the Suffolk landscape he grew up in: canals, clouds, and mills studied from oil sketches made outdoors. Those cloud studies were working notes for larger exhibition pictures.
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