1836
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Stoke-by-Nayland is a 1836 oil by John Constable, a Romanticism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
This painting shows a summer scene with a bright vista on the left and a shady lane on the right. The artist divided the canvas to contrast light and dark. He wrote about this painting, sharing his thoughts on the summer morning scene. This contrast shows his attention to detail and love for the countryside. You can learn more about the artist's use of light and dark by looking into the technique of chiaroscuro.
“What say you to a summer morning?” John Constable wrote of this painting in a letter to a friend. Even after many years living in London, Constable continued to portray the countryside, dear to him from boyhood. Stoke-by-Nayland lies a few miles from his native village of East Bergholt in Suffolk. In this view, he divided the canvas between a brilliant, airy vista toward the hamlet on the left and a shady, tunnel-like country lane leading off to the right. Constable explained in his letter that the painting depicted a specific time, a morning in “July or August, at eight or nine o’clock,…
Sold, the artist’s estate sale, Foster and Sons, London, May 16, 1838, lot 40 together with a sketch of the Opening of Waterloo Bridge to Joy [Graves 1918 and Day 1968]. Miss Morris; sold June 26, 1860 lot 108 to Cox [annotated sale cat. in the Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenisn, The Haag; copy in curatorial object file. See also Redford 1888]. Jonathan Nield (1790–1887), Dunster House, Rochdale, England; sold, Christie’s, London, May 3, 1879, lot 13 to Permain [annotated sale cat. in curatorial object file. See also Redford 1888, Graves 1918 and Day 1968]. Sir Frederick Thorpe…
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 190. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 136. Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpiece of the Month, April 1940, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of English Painting: Hogarth, Constable, Turner, Oct. 15–Dec. 22, 1946. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Masters of British Painting, 1800–1950, Oct. 2–Dec. 2, 1956, cat. 27; St. Louis, City Art Museum, Jan. 10–Mar. 2, 1957; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Mar. 28–May 12, 1957 [New York only]. New York,…
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John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.
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