Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837, British
Title:
Cloud Study
Date:
1822
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper laid on panel
Dimensions:
11 1/4 × 19 inches (28.6 × 48.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
back: "Sep 21 1822 past one o'clock looking South wind very fresh at East, but warm."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.116
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
clouds | landscape | study (visual work) | blue | white (color) | gray (color) | texture | light | space | science | meteorology | science
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Indiana University Art Museum, 1988-01-27 - 1988-03-06)

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Chicago Historical Society, 1988-04-06 - 1988-06-05)

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (New York Public Library, 1987-10-31 - 1988-01-02)

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:
Gemma Brace, Air Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768-2017, Sansom & Co., Bristol, p. 35, fig. 35, N6764 .A57 2017 (YCBA)

Centenary exhibition of paintings and water-colours by John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837), May 4th to August 31st, 1937. , Tate Britain, London, UK, 1937, p. 20, fig. 38, NJ18 C74 T36 1937 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 62-63, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 221, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, pp. 122-23, no. 346, Tav. XXXIXA, 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. 48-49, no. 52, 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. 85 (v.1),, no. 115, pl. 34 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. 24, no. 77, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 106 (v.1), no. 22.27, pl. 357 (v. 2), NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of eighteenth and nineteenth century drawings and paintings : 26 July 1961, Sotheby's, London, July 26, 1961, p. 32, lot no. 160, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

Basil Taylor, Constable : paintings, drawings and watercolours, , Phaidon, London, UK, 1973, p. 199, note 30, no. 62, NJ18 C74 T39 + (YCBA)

John E. Thornes, John Constable's skies : a fusion of art and science, , University of Birmingham Press, Birmingham, UK, 1999, p. 269, no. 52, pl. 123, NJ18 C74 T56 1999 (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. 12 (v.1), no. 40, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:627