Constable: The Leaping Horse

25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult

Automatic translation by
Systran

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The Leaping Horse is one of John Constable's most celebrated pictures - celebrated at the time of its creation as well as subsequently. The artist exhibited it at the Royal Academy in 1825, having made many studies for the work (one full size, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum), and he was to make a second finished version of the composition, in which he omits the detail of the horse itself. The painting was done at a time when Constable's fame was at last growing, especially in France. The king of France had presented him with a gold medal for paintings exhibited at the Louvre, including The Haywain, and he was to come to be seen in that country as a precursor of Impressionism. The video takes The Leaping Horse as a starting point for a broad discussion of the conventions of landscape depiction of the period.

John Constable The Haywain

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Credits -

Director
Charles Cooper

Presenter
Briony Fer

Open University/BBC

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