1817
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Cottage in a Cornfield is a 1817 oil by John Constable, a Romanticism work, depicting Cottage, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This oil painting shows a quiet English cottage standing in a cornfield. The corn is ripe on one side but still green on the other, hinting it's July. It’s unfinished— Constable kept tweaking it for years. He used a real donkey study from 1815 to paint the animal here. The corn’s split colors are a clever detail to show light and shade. Look up the artist Constable, John (RA).
A donkey stands near a gate in front of a cottage surrounded by a cornfield, where the corn is green on the shaded side and ripe elsewhere, indicating a July setting. Though Constable began the work in 1817, he left it unfinished until 1833, basing the donkey on a study from December 1815. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1833 alongside other works. It was later bequeathed to a collection in 1888.
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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