A Great Oak Tree
John Constable · c. 1801 · black chalk with gray wash on laid paper, laid down
Public domain
Open Access image from the National Gallery of Art, marked free for any use.
How this license was checked
nga:openaccess=1
About this picture
A Great Oak Tree is a public-domain drawing by John Constable, dated c. 1801. Black chalk with gray wash on laid paper, laid down. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“A Great Oak Tree” (c. 1801) 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.
Each file is included because the source archive marks it public domain or CC0. That is the archive’s statement, not a guarantee. Check the source record for your own use, especially outside the United States.