Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.158
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | figures | park (grounds) | trees | hill | mountain | gazebo | pavilions | estate | sunlight
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Leicestershire | Bardon | Coleorton Hall
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
English Romanticism (Center Gallery, Bucknell University, 1990-02-24 - 1990-04-08)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)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 62-63, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Constable, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, NY, 1986, p. 153, pl. 152, NJ18 C74 C75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 25, no. 377, 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. 52-53, no. 55, NJ18 C74 U5 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 124 (v.1), no. 23.25, pl. 413, NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA)Charles Rhyne, Constable Drawings and Watercolors in the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and the Yale Center for British Art, Part I. Authentic Works , Master Drawings, vol. 19, Master Drawings Association, Inc., 1981, p. 140, note 2, NC1 M37 19 (YCBA)Michael Rosenthal, Constable, the painter and his landscape, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1983, p. 150, fig. 187, NJ18 C74 R68 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Basil Taylor, Constable : paintings, drawings and watercolours, , Phaidon, London, UK, 1973, note 40, no. 103, NJ18 C74 T39 + (YCBA)
Provenance:
Created by John Constable (1776-1837), the artist; by descent to his daughter, Isabel Constable (1822-1888); by whom given to J. Thompson (1785-1866) [1]; … ; purchased at auction by Sir Geoffrey William Agnew (1908-1986) of Thomas Agnew & Sons at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England, March 17, 1967 (lot 16, 'Bardon Mill, near Coleorton Hall') in "Fine English Pictures" [a]; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), 1967 [b]; by whom given to Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, December 1981. Notes: --- [1] The March 17, 1967 sale catalog gives the painting's provenance as "The artist's daughter; Mr. J. Thompson." Graham Reynolds notes that Isabel Constable is known to have gifted works to Richard Anthony Thompson (1819-1909), assistant director of the South Kensington Museum, in The later paintings and drawings of John Constable (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), 1:58 and 1:124, https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:582470. Richard Anthony Thompson's father was John Thompson (1785-1866), a respected engraver. Citations: --- [a] Christie, Manson & Woods. March 17, 1967. Fine English Pictures. https://worldcat.org/en/title/171333878 --- [b] Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 124 (v.1), no. 23.25