Study of Foliage
Oil Painting
ca. 1828 (painted)
ca. 1828 (painted)
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Constable made studies like this throughout his career. He advised a visitor to his studio, 'never do anything without nature before you...See those weeds and the dock leaves?...I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me'. Similar clumps of weeds appear in the foreground of various large paintings.
Object details
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| Title | Study of Foliage (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on paper |
| Brief description | Oil painting, 'Study of Foliage', John Constable, ca. 1828 |
| Physical description | Study of foliage with a very large, centralized leaf. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'JC' (Inscribed in ink on the back of the sketch) |
| Credit line | Given by Isabel Constable |
| Object history | Given by Isabel Constable, 1888 |
| Historical context | 'Constable was elected R.A. on 10 February 1829. He exhibited 'Hadleigh Castle' (now in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon; see No. 127 [D.234-1888] in this Catalogue) and a landscape of a "rich cottage". He paid his last two visits to Fisher at Salisbury, in July and in November. His preparations for English Landscape Scenery got under way in this year: the earliest letter on the subject to Lucas printed by Shirley (S.: L., p. 20) is dated 28 August 1829.' [G Reynolds, 1973, p.190] |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | Constable made studies like this throughout his career. He advised a visitor to his studio, 'never do anything without nature before you...See those weeds and the dock leaves?...I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me'. Similar clumps of weeds appear in the foreground of various large paintings. |
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| Other number | 326, plate 243 - Reynolds catalogue 1996 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 338-1888 |
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| Record created | July 25, 2003 |
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