View Epsom by John Constable (1 results)
Published by The Tate Gallery 1809, 1809
Seller: 2nd Hand Books, Kenner, LA, U.S.A.2nd Hand Books
Contact seller5-star sellerPrint From original Oil on Board, 29.8 x 35.9 cm. Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan, 1900 Art; Prints; Lithograph; In 1802 Constable wrote In a letter to his friend John Dunthorne 'I shall shortly return to Bergholt where I shall make some laborious studies from nature - and I shall en- to get a pure and unaffected representation of t…he scenes that may employ me . . . This oil sketch of a view at Epsom is a good example of the results of this resolve; Constable captures with great immediacy not the physical detail of the scene but the feel of a particular moment - the pattern of light and shade, the structure and lighting of the sky, the forms of the trees against the horizon. 8 X 10 inches, Matted, Fine. -.
