Cloud Study
1830–35
Medium
Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 × 6 in. (12.7 × 15.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, 2015 Benefit Fund, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and Connie Simmons and James D. Krugman Gift, 2016
Accession Number
2016.589
Tags
About the Artist
John Constable · 1776–1837
John Constable (1776-1837) was an English landscape painter whose naturalistic depictions of the Suffolk countryside revolutionized landscape painting and established him, alongside J.M.W. Turner, as one of England's greatest artists. His work pioneered the direct observation of nature that would later influence the French Barbizon school and, ultimately, Impressionism. Born in East Bergholt, Suf...