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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Study of a Cart with Two Horses is a 17 oil by John Constable, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
John Constable painted this small oil sketch in 1814. He made it outside beside a farmyard heap of manure. It’s a quick study for a bigger painting he planned to show at the Royal Academy the next year. The scene is simple: two horses hitched to a cart. Constable worked fast to catch the light and mood before the moment changed. The full finished picture hangs at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This oil study on paper with a brown ground depicts a cart pulled by two horses and was painted from life by Constable beside a dunghill at East Bergholt. It served as a preparatory work for a larger composition titled *The Stour Valley and Dedham Village*, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1815. The scene reflects Constable’s practice of direct observation in the Suffolk landscape during 1814, a period marked by his engagement with rural subjects and visits to local patrons.
Read the full account in the museum source.
John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.
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