Painting by John Constable
The Leaping Horse is an 1825 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable.[1] It portrays a scene on the River Stour in Constable Country. A tow horse pulling a barge is shown leaping over one of the cattle guard barriers erected to stop cattle wandering. It was one of the large "six-footers" he produced from 1819 onwards.[2]
It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1825 under the simple title of Landscape.[3] It is now in the collection of the Royal Academy having been acquired in 1889.[4] A full-sized preparatory study for the painting is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.[5]
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References
Bibliography
- Bermingham, Ann. Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1740-1860. University of California Press, 1989.
- Hamilton, James. Constable: A Portrait. Hachette UK, 2022.
- Humphreys, Richard. John Constable: The Leaping Horse. Royal Academy of Arts, 2018.
- Reynolds, Graham. Constable's England. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.
- Thornes, John E. John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science. A&C Black, 1999.
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- List of paintings
- Old Hall, East Bergholt (1801)
- Dedham Vale (1802)
- The Bridges Family (1804)
- Bow Fell, Cumberland (1807)
- The Church Porch, East Bergholt (1810)
- Flatford Mill from the Lock (1812)
- Boys Fishing (1813)
- The Celebration in East Bergholt of the Peace of 1814 (1814)
- The Mill Stream (1814)
- Brightwell Church and Village (1815)
- Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill (1815)
- Stour Valley and Dedham Church (1815)
- Golding Constable's Flower Garden (1815)
- Golding Constable's Vegetable Garden (1815)
- Weymouth Bay (1816)
- The Quarters behind Alresford Hall (1816)
- The Wheat Field (1816)
- Wivenhoe Park (1816)
- Fen Lane, East Bergholt (1817)
- Flatford Mill (1817)
- Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill (1817)
- Willy Lott's House from the Stour (1818)
- The White Horse (1819)
- Dedham Lock and Mill (1820)
- Harwich Lighthouse (1820)
- Hampstead Heath (1820)
- Stratford Mill (1820)
- Waterloo Bridge (1820)
- Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close (1820)
- Hampstead Heath with the Salt Box (1820)
- Harnham Gate (1821)
- Trees at Hampstead (1821)
- The Hay Wain (1821)
- Malvern Hall (1821)
- The Grove, Hampstead (1822)
- Hampstead Heath, with a Bonfire (1822)
- Road to the Spaniards (1822)
- View of Lower Terrace, Hampstead (1822)
- View on the Stour near Dedham (1822)
- Yarmouth Jetty (1822)
- Gillingham Bridge (1823)
- Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1823)
- The Lock (1824)
- Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath (1825)
- The Leaping Horse (1825)
- A Boat Passing a Lock (1826)
- The Cornfield (1826)
- Parham Mill (1826)
- Chain Pier, Brighton (1827)
- Vale of Health, Hampstead (1827)
- The Vale of Dedham (1828)
- Hadleigh Castle (1829)
- The Glebe Farm (1830)
- Helmingham Dell (1830)
- Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831)
- Englefield House (1832)
- The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (1832)
- Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead (1832)
- The Cottage in a Cornfield (1833)
- Old Sarum (1834)
- The Valley Farm (1835)
- Stonehenge (1835)
- Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1836)
- Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow (1836)
- Stoke-by-Nayland (1836)
- Arundel Mill and Castle (1837)
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