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The Hay Wain

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The Hay Wain, originally titled Landscape: Noon, is a painting by John Constable completed in 1821, depicting a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. It hangs in the National Gallery in London and is regarded as Constable's most famous image and one of the greatest and most popular English paintings, considered one of the quintessential works of the Romantic movement in art and literature.

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Year Created
1821 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
National Gallery, London 1
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Painting 1
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    The Hay Wain, originally titled Landscape: Noon, is a painting by John Constable, completed in 1821, which depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. It hangs in the National Gallery in London
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    Painted in oils on canvas, the work depicts as its central feature three horses pulling what appears to be a wood wain or large farm waggon across the river.
  • Genre reference
    The Hay Wain, originally titled Landscape: Noon, is a painting by John Constable completed in 1821, depicting a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex.
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