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The Leaping Horse
1825
A tow horse clears a barrier beside the river. That brief action disturbs the apparent stillness of the landscape and reveals it as a working place.
Artist field note
John Constable
A familiar place deserves the scale of history.
The five in one idea
Constable made close attention to familiar ground a serious artistic argument: local places could sustain ambitious painting without borrowing a classical myth.