Dedham Vale from the Road to East Bergholt, Sunset

1810

This sketch is one of five made by Constable in preparation for his first large-scale oil painting of a Suffolk subject, Dedham Vale: Morning. In the final version, the cattle on the left, indistinct in this study, were painted in greater detail, and the man with the walking stick on the right was replaced by a woman. Oil sketches like this allowed Constable to experiment with viewpoint, composition, and a range of colors.

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	6 1/16 x 10 1/4 in. (15.4 x 26 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.21
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	On View

Image Caption

John Constable, Dedham Vale from the Road to East Bergholt, Sunset, 1810, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.21

Select Bibliography

Reynolds, Graham. The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable. 2 vol. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1996. Reynolds, Graham, Charles Rhyne, and Julius Meier-Graefe. John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837): Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours, Mezzotints. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1988. Parris, Leslie and Ian Fleming-Williams. John Constable. Exhibition catalogue. London: Tate Publishing, 1991. Rosenthal, Michael. Constable: The Painter and his Landscape. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1983. Parris, Leslie. Constable: A New York Private Collection. New York: Published Privately, 1994. Parris, Leslie. Constable: Pictures from the Exhibition. London: Tate Publishing. 1991. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

Private collection, sold to Lloyd and Day; [Lloyd and Day, Effingham, Surrey, sold to Manton, 22 June 1983]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1983–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–7, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007