This article is about the painting by John Constable. For the painting panels by Hieronymus Bosch, see The Haywain Triptych.
The Hay Wain
Artist
John Constable
Year
1821
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
130.2 cm × 185.4 cm (51+1⁄4 in × 73 in)
Location
National Gallery, London
The Hay Wain – originally titled Landscape: Noon – is a painting by John Constable, completed in 1821, which depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex.[1][2] It hangs in the National Gallery in London and is regarded as "Constable's most famous image"[3] and one of the greatest and most popular English paintings.[4]
Painted in oils on canvas, the work depicts as its central feature three horses pulling what appears to be a wood wain or large farm wagon across the river. Willy Lott's Cottage, also the subject of an eponymous painting by Constable, is visible on the far-left. The scene takes place near Flatford Mill in Suffolk, though since the Stour forms the border of two counties, the left bank is in Suffolk and the landscape on the right bank is in Essex.
The Hay Wain is one of a series of paintings by Constable called the "six-footers", large-scale canvasses which he painted for the annual summer exhibitions at the Royal Academy. As with all of the paintings in this series, Constable produced a full-scale oil sketch for the work; this is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Another small oil-sketch, the first in his experimentation with extending of the composition of the painting to the right, is now in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art.[5] Constable originally exhibited the finished work with the title Landscape: Noon, suggesting that he envisaged it as belonging to the classical landscape tradition of representing the cycles of nature.[3]
The painting measures 130.2 cm × 185.4 cm (51+1⁄4 in × 73 in).[6]
^Alastair Sooke (14 September 2014). "Constable was more than a reactionary fuddy-duddy". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^"My Favourite Painting: Sir Jim Paice". Country Life. 30 July 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ ab"Early Six-Foot Stour River Paintings". Constable's Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings. National Gallery of Art. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
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^Parris, Leslie; Fleming-Williams, Ian (1991). Constable. Tate Gallery. p. 203. ISBN 1854370707.
^"John Constable | The Hay Wain | NG1207 | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk.
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