The Hay Wain, 1821

John Constable

Oil on canvas · 130.2 x 185.4 cm

A cart fords a shallow river beneath one of Constable's enormous skies.

Constable's haywain fording a Suffolk stream under a broad English sky is the nation's best-loved landscape. Its freshly observed clouds and dappled light stunned French painters when shown in Paris — quietly revolutionary beneath its gentle, rural calm.

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