Constable in Love
The third in a series of six talks about painter John Constable analyses one of his most famous works: The Leaping Horse.
The Leaping Horse (1825) is one of Constable’s best-known paintings, both in the dramatic sketch, kept at the V&A, and in the “finished painting”, which has travelled this year from the Royal Academy to be shown first at Tate Britain, and later at Gainsborough House in Sudbury. It is a leap not only as a subject but in painting itself, representing one of Constable’s most dramatic meditations on what it is to create a work of art: a leap into the unknown, a journey onto the high seas, a wresting of colour from the indifferent earth.
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