Constable's Horse leaps into Dulwich Picture Gallery

The Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, United Kingdom) presents John Constable's masterpiece The Leaping Horse, on loan by the Royal Academy of Arts. This exhibition is part of the wonderful series of masterpieces that are on show at the Gallery to celebrate its bicentenary.

John Constable said that the Suffolk countryside of his childhood was what made him want to be an artist. The Leaping Horse is perhaps the most dramatic of John Constable's Suffolk landscapes.

Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1825, this work was described by the artist himself to a potential purchaser as: 'Scene in Suffolk, banks of a navigable river, barge horse leaping on an old bridge, under which is a fl oodgate and an Ellbray -this is presumably a reference to the netting visible in the sluice under the bridge -probably an eel trap- river plants and weeds, a more-hen (sic) frightened from her Nest - near by in the meadows is the fi ne Gothic tower of Dedham'.

Date: until October 30.
Location: The Dulwich Picture Gallery. London SE21 7AD. United Kingdom
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 5pm. Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 5pm.