
The Hay Wain
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Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk
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De hooiwagen (Engels: The Hay Wain) is een landschap van de Engelse kunstschilder John Constable, gemaakt in 1821, 130,2 × 185,4 cm centimeter groot. Het toont de plattelandsomgeving bij Flatford, niet ver van zijn geboortehuis in Suffolk. Het werk is geschilderd in de stijl van de romantiek en bevindt zich momenteel in de collectie van de National Gallery te Londen.
1821
“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
Son born: Charles Golding Constable
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”.
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