Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000263About the Artwork
An amateur meteorologist, John Constable was most at home painting meticulously observed cloud formations, weather conditions, and natural light effects. He believed an accurate rendering of these constantly shifting elements could convey his vision of the vitality and magnificence of the English countryside. Working from the summerhouse he rented at Hampstead from 1819–26, Constable painted a landscape focusing more on the dark rain clouds than on the laborers in the foreground, keeping the details of their backbreaking work at a picturesque distance.
Provenance
1828-1864: Painted by the artist for Henry Hebbert [1783-1864], London, United Kingdom, by descent to his son, Henry Hebbert 1864-1894: Henry Hebbert [1814-1893], London, United Kingdom 1894: Cyrus McCormick Jr. [1859-1936], Chicago, IL, . 1958-1959: (Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, NY, 1958 sold to Leggatt Brothers) 1959: (Leggatt Brothers, London, United Kingdom, 1959. by 1966: Earl of Inchcape, London, United Kingdom by 1966. 1972: (E. V. Thaw & Co., New York. NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1972-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). CMA @ Oberlin (second rotation). Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 3-June 5, 2006). British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Constable (British, 1776–1837)
- Date
- 1828
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 89 x 105.5 x 11.5 cm (35 1/16 x 41 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 60.6 x 78.1 cm (23 7/8 x 30 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Accession no.
- 1972.48
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