Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Title:
Somerset House Terrace from Waterloo Bridge
Date:
ca. 1819
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
6 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches (15.6 x 18.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.93
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | boats | cityscape | sailboats | dwelling | terrace | water | riverbank | buildings | cathedral | city | river | brushstrokes | figures
Associated Places:
Europe | England | United Kingdom | London | City of Westminster | City of London | Greater London | Thames | St. Paul's Cathedral | Somerset House | Blackfriar's Bridge | Waterloo Bridge
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)

The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)

Masters of British Painting: John Constable (Musée du Louvre, 2002-10-08 - 2003-01-13)

The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)

John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01)

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Paul Arthur Cheramy, La collection Cheramy : catalogue raisonné précédé d'études sur les maitres principaux de la collection, , R. Piper et Cie, Munich, 1908, p. 64, no. 66, NJ18 C42328 A12 M45+ (LSF)

Constable : le choix de Lucian Freud, Petit Journal des grandes expositions, Paris, 2002, p. 10, fig. no. 20, V 1016 (YCBA)

Galerie Georges Petit sale catalogue : Catalogue des tableaux anciens et modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins. . . trés importante collection d'œuvres de Constable et d'Eugène Delacroix, primitifs italiens composant la collection P.-A. Cheramy : 5-7 May 1908, Galerie Georges Petit, May 5-7, 1908, p. 23, lot 31, http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52508125j

Galerie Georges Petit sale catalogue : Catalogue des tableaux-dessins-pastels principalement du XVIIe siècle, des école anglaise, français et italienne. . . composant la collection de M.A. Kann : 6-8 December 1920, Galerie Georges Petit, December 6-8, 1920, p. 16, lot 13, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3207656

Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 113, no. 266, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA)

John Constable : a selection of paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969, pp. 30-31, no.. 23, NJ18 C74 U5 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 20 (v.1), no. 65, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, pp. 40-41 (v.1), no. 19.37, pl. 127 (v.2), NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catatogue : Catalogue of fine eighteenth and nineteenth century English paintings and drawings : 18 March 1964, Sotheby's, London, March 18, 1964, p. 38, Lot 103, Auction catalogues (YCBA)

Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 6, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 8 (v.1), no. 29, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38543