National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Constable
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Audio guide to works from the NGA exhibition Constable: impressions of land, sea and sky shown at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 3 March – 12 June 2006
John CONSTABLE, The Vale of Dedham 1827-28
This was Constable’s last major painting of the Stour Valley, his definitive treatment of a favourite subject, which summed up his personal affection ...
John CONSTABLE, Landscape with goatherd and goats, after Claude 1823
Throughout his life Constable was devoted to the work of Claude Lorrain (1604/5–1682) – from around 1800, when he first admired the paintings by Claud...
John CONSTABLE, Spring (for English Landscape, part 1, June 1830) 1829 (a)
In the mezzotint, Spring, Constable and Lucas aimed to capture the dry quality of the paint of Constable’s oil sketch of this subject: Spring: East Be...
John CONSTABLE, Spring (for English Landscape, part 1, June 1830) 1829 (b)
This is the same state as the previous work, however it has been printed with less ink and the image is therefore lighter. It may have been a later pr...
John CONSTABLE, Spring (for English Landscape, part 1, June 1830) 1829 (c)
Constable touched this proof with Chinese ink to show Lucas that he wanted additional rooks in the sky and foreground, more stones and re-grounding in...
John CONSTABLE, Spring (for English Landscape, part 1, June 1830) 1829 (d)
In this progress proof the rooks are larger and clearer than in previous proofs. The ploughman’s legs have been clearly defined and there is a new sha...
John CONSTABLE, Cloud study, horizon of trees 27 September 1821
In the mezzotint, Spring, Constable and Lucas aimed to capture the dry quality of the paint of Constable’s oil sketch of this subject: Spring: East Be...
John CONSTABLE, Cloud study, Hampstead, trees at right 11 September 1821
This is one of the earliest of a number of Constable’s 1821 cloud studies in which he included a margin of land or treetops along the bottom of the im...
John CONSTABLE, Rainstorm over the sea [Seascape study with rainclouds] c.1824-28
This spectacular oil sketch looking directly out to sea is one of the most remarkable open air sketches that Constable painted during his visits to Br...