Touring exhibition: Constable

Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum

Exhibition available to hire

The exhibition explores the later works of John Constable, Britain's best-loved landscape painter, and showcases some of the finest paintings from the V&A's world-renowned Constable collection. It includes the full-size oil sketches for 'The Hay Wain' and 'The Leaping Horse', two of the painter's most prestigious works. Both of these important sketches have been cleaned specially for the exhibition, revealing their original colours and tonalities for the first time in living memory. These are displayed alongside a number of the artist's watercolours, drawings and oil studies. From the turn of the 19th century these works have captured the public imagination as representations of archetypal English landscape.

Size: approx 300 – 400 m²
Available October 2012 – January 2013

For further information this exhibition please contact touringexhibitions@vam.ac.uk

Locations & dates

Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, 23 September 2010 - 23 January 2011
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 12 March - 3 July 2011

Museum of Fine Arts, Gent, 17 Septemner 2011 - 29 January 2012
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, 17 March - 10 June 2012
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 23 June - 30 September 2012