Study for the Leaping Horse
A pen and grey ink with grey wash study for the painting ‘The Leaping Horse’, a stream with a lock to the right, a horse ridden by a boy tows two barges.
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Constable was known to make full size oil studies for compositions prior to his great paintings, and it was his habit when searching for an idea for a picture to look through his sketchbooks for promising material.
This is the first sketch of said drawing. He went on to produce a full size study which is now at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Presented to the British Museum by Isabel Constable 1888