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Bread field by John Constable

Bread field by John Constable

This famous painting shows a rural road leading from East Bergholt to Dedham. As a child, the future artist passed this road every day – to school and from school. Constable worked on the “Bread Field” very enthusiastically and with incredible speed for himself. To his friend D. Fisher, he wrote: “This picture completely captured me, I can neither think nor speak of anything other than her.

I am reminded of this by one of my friends who took part in the Battle of Waterloo. He told me that during the fight he did not have time to turn his head either to the left or to the right, and he looked only forward, thinking only about what was happening to him at that moment. “

Constable strove to write as truthfully as possible. He even borrowed from a familiar botanist an album in which the plants blooming in July were listed. Meanwhile, the artist nevertheless added several traditional pastoral details to the “Khlebnoye pole”, hoping that with them the picture will become “more corrupt.” “I really hope that I will be able to sell this painting,” he wrote to D. Fischer, “and I finish it with all possible care.” But, despite all the efforts, this work during the life of Constable and remained unsold. Only after the death of the master, friends bought it to make a donation to the newly opened National Gallery.

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