Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.126
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
autumn | town | figures | gate | arch | sunlight | spire | tree | church
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Salisbury | Wiltshire | Salisbury cathedral
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
John Constable (The Yomiuri Shimbun, 1986-01-30 - 1986-06-17)Constable's England (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983-04-13 - 1983-09-04)John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 58-59, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 151, no. 651, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA)John Constable : a selection of paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969, pp. 32-33, no. 28, NJ18 C74 U5 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 79 (v.1),, no. 104, pl. 50 (v.2), ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 21 [v.1], no. 67, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)Leslie Parris, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, Book Review , Burlington Magazine, vol. 127, March 1985, p.. 166, N1 B87 + (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, Constable's England, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1983, pp. 102-03, No. 33, NJ18 C74 R496 (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 87 (v.1), no. 21.75, pl. 278 (v.2), NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA)Charles Rhyne, Constable Drawings and Watercolors in the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and the Yale Center for British Art, Part I. Authentic Works , Master Drawings, vol. 19, Master Drawings Association, Inc., 1981, p. 140, not 2, NC1 M37 19 (YCBA)Timothy Wilcox, Constable and Salisbury : the soul of landscape, , Scala Publishers, London, UK, 2011, pp. 94-95, 97, fig. 81, NJ18.C74 W53 2011 Oversize (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 9 (v.1), no. 31, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Provenance:
Created by John Constable (1776-1837), the artist; possibly purchased at auction by Bell at Foster and Sons, London, England, May 15-16, 1838 (lot 7, 'Four–Old gate, Salisbury; House at Hampstead; View at Dedham, and one other'), in "Finished Works, Studies, and Sketches" [a]; acquired by the Saltmarsh Collection [1]; purchased by Peter Wilding (1907-1969); acquired by Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Christian Allhusen (1910-1998), Bradenham Hall; purchased by Leggatt Brothers, London, England, October 1961 [b]; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), 1961; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1981. Notes: --- [1] Possibly the collection of John Hugh Constable, great-grandson of John Constable, and his wife, Eileen Constable (née Saltmarsh). Citations: --- [a] Foster and Sons. May 15-16, 1838. Finished Works, Studies and Sketches, of John Constable, Esq. R.A." https://doi.org/10.1163/2210-7886_ASC-15074 [b] Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 87 (v.1), no. 21.75