Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset
John Constable · 1821-1822 · oil on paper on canvas
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About this picture
Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset is a public-domain painting by John Constable, dated 1821-1822. Oil on paper on canvas. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset” (1821-1822) 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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