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Landscape with Cottages
John Constable · 1809–10
Provenance
Ownership history
- Isabel Constable (1822-1888), the artist's daughter [acc. to label on reverse]; possibly her sale, Christie’s, London, May 28, 1891, lot 149 for 144 guineas to Colnaghi. Possibly Dowdeswell Galleries, London, by December 1892 [acc. to a label on reverse with the inscription “Morning Leader 17 Dec 1892” and attached newspaper clipping that might be interpreted as a report on pictures exhibited at Dowdeswell Galleries, see Dowdeswell Galleries, A Collection of Pictures in Oil by Early British Painters, 1892, cat. 33 or cat. 36 or cat. 55]. Elsie K. White by 1944, Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1944.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Artist Looks at the Landscape, June 22-August 25, 1974, no. cat.
- Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin, Constable: Exhibition Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of John Constable, April 1-14, 1976, cat. 8.
Literature
Published references
- Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago 59, 3 (May 1965), p. 10 (ill.).
- Robert Hoozee, L’opera completa di Constable (Milan, 1979), p. 100, no. 137 (ill.).
- John D. Morse, Old Masters Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York, 1979), p. 56.
- Graham Reynolds, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (New Haven, 1996), p. 163, no. 11.48, pl. 930.
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