John ConstableRoyaume-Uni, 1776–1837La Charrette de foin
The Hay Wain
Peut-on la contempler ?
Nous l’ignorons : le musée garde le silence
National Gallery
Londres, Royaume-Uni
Le propriétaire est connu. Si elle est exposée aujourd’hui, le musée ne le dit pas, et l’on ne nous a pas appris à deviner.
- Dans cet état depuis
- 29 sept. 2026
- Source
- Les données de collection du musée lui-même
About the painting
La Charrette de foin (The Hay Wain, en anglais) est un tableau achevé par John Constable en 1821. Cette peinture à l'huile sur toile de 130 × 185 cm est conservée à la National Gallery à Londres.
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- NG1207
Sources
- Wikidata · obtenue il y a 5 jours
- Image : National Gallery — John Constable · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Pendant ce temps, chez John Constable
La vie entière1821
“The Hay Wain” at the Royal Academy
The picture, shown as “Landscape: Noon”, found no buyer, but it was seen by the painter Théodore Géricault and the writer Charles Nodier. According to Delacroix, Géricault went back to France quite stunned and invited Constable to Paris, while Nodier urged French artists to look to nature rather than to trips to Rome.
1821
“I should paint my own places best”
In a letter to his friend John Fisher in 1821 Constable wrote that he should paint his own places best, and that painting is but another word for feeling. The Dedham Vale around his home came to be known as “Constable Country”.
1821
Son born: Charles Golding Constable
23 October 1821
To Fisher: “I have done a good deal of skying”
Constable wrote to Fisher that he had done a good deal of skying and was determined to conquer all the difficulties that remained. He made cloud studies, noting the weather, direction of light and time of day on the back, and held the sky to be the key note of a landscape, drawing on the meteorologist Luke Howard’s classification of clouds.
1822/1823
Daughter born: Isabel Constable
![Vallon à Helmingham [Helmingham Dell], Constable, John, 1e quart du XIXe siècle (peint à l'été 1823 (selon Beckett)) (1823)](https://collections.louvre.fr/media/cache/large/0000000021/0000065616/0000312650_OG.JPG)
