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Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837
Title:
Dedham Lock
Former Title(s):

Lock near Dedham

Sketch for the lock on the Stour

Canal Study
Date:
between 1819 and 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions:
5 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches (13.3 x 18.7 cm), Frame: 8 3/4 × 10 3/4 × 1 inches (22.2 × 27.3 × 2.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.101
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1976.7.101FR
Subject Terms:
boats | brushstrokes | building | cityscape | figures | landscape | lock | people | yellow
Associated Places:
Dedham | England | Essex | Europe | United Kingdom
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:324
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Created by John Constable (1776-1837), the artist; … ; acquired by Paul-Arthur Chéramy (1840-1912), Rue Pelouze, Paris, France [a]; purchased at auction by "M Sorel" at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, May 5-7, 1908 (lot 36, ‘Ecluse sur la stour’), in "Tableaux anciens et modernes" [1] [b]; purchased at auction by "Schnell" at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, April 14-16, 1913 (lot 365, 'Ecluse sur la Stour'), in "Tableaux anciens et modernes" [2] [c]; … ; possibly acquired by Lovell William Vicars (1868-1943) of Vicars Brothers Ltd., Old Bond Street, London, England [3]; acquired by his wife, Clara Gertrude Vicars (1883-1961), by 1937 [4]; by descent to her son, Alfred H. Vicars (1907-1997), by 1952 [5]; purchased by Leggatt Brothers, London, England; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), March 1963; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1976.

Notes:
[1] The entry in the 1908 sales catalog is pasted to the old backing for the YCBA's Dedham Lock.

[2] Possibly Joseph Schnell, who worked for the Austrian and French art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer. Appeared alongside Sedelmeyer at Austria's fine arts pavilion during the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. Schnell sold 130 Constable "dessins" in 1922 at Hotel Drouot as one lot. See https://archive.org/details/tableauxancienst00htel/page/n11/mode/2up.

[3] Because Lovell William Vicars was an art dealer, he may have been involved in his wife’s acquisition of the painting.

[4] When she loaned the artwork. See The catalog of a centenary memorial exhibition of John Constable, R.A.: his origins and influence; illustrating the various periods of his work, also the work of his predecessors, and his influence on the art of his successors, held at Messrs. Wildenstein's Galleries, 21st April to 29th May, 1937 (London: Wildenstein's Galleries, 1937), 29, https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:583247.

[5] When he loaned the artwork. See Exhibition of paintings by John Constable, 1776-1837, 8th July to 30th August, 1952 at the Guildhall Art Gallery (London: The Guildhall Art Gallery, 1952), 5, https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3370825.

Citations:
[a] Julius Meier-Graefe and Erich Klossowski, La collection Chéramy: catalogue raisonné, précédé d'études sur les maîtres principaux de la collection (Munich: R. Piper & Co, 1908), 59, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62325352/f75.

[b] Galerie Georges Petit. May 5-7, 1908. Catalogue des tableaux anciens et modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins... Très importante collection d'œuvres de Constable et d'Eugène Delacroix, primitifs italiens composant la collection P.-A. Chéramy. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52508125j/f46

[c] Galerie Georges Petit. April 14-16, 1913. Catalogue des tableaux anciens et modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins… Dependant de la succession de M. P.A. Cheramy. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1253177v/f118

In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

John Constable - 20 Years of Oil Sketches (1809-1829) (Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, 2007-04-03 - 2007-06-16) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

John Constable (1776-1837) (Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, 1988-05-09 - 1988-06-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Paul Arthur Cheramy, La collection Cheramy : catalogue raisonné précédé d'études sur les maitres principaux de la collection, , R. Piper et Cie, Munich, 1908, no. 48, NJ18 C42328 A12 M45+ (LSF) [ORBIS]

Hermine Chivian-Cobb, Constable's oil sketches, 1809-29 : the Maria Bicknell years, , Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, New York, 2007, pp. 49, 62, pl. no. 8, fig. 39, NJ18 C74 C78 2007 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Christie's sale catalogue : Works of the late John Constable, R.A., comprising forty pictures & sketches in oils, exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, 1889, as the property of Miss Isabel Constable, deceased : 28 May 1891, Christie's, May 28, 1891, p. 13, lot 139, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 58-9, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Constable, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, NY, 1986, pp. 106-9, 168, 225, pl. 102, NJ18 C74 C75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Peter L. Donhauser, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York ; Exhibtiion, ART News, vol. 87, October 1988, p. 174, N1 A6 OVERSIZE (HAAS) [ORBIS]

Exhibition of paintings by John Constable, 1776-1837 : 8th July to 30th August, 1952 at the Guildhall Art Gallery, , The Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 1952, p. 5, no. 19, NJ18 C74 E95 1952 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Galerie Georges Petit sale catalogue : Catalogue des tableaux anciens et modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins. . . dépendant de la succession de M. P. -A. Cheramy, Galerie Georges Petit, Accessed March 14, 2023, p. 71, lot 365, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1253177v [Website]

Galerie Georges Petit sale catalogue : Catalogue des tableaux anciens et modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins. . . trés importante collection d'œuvres de Constable et d'Eugène Delacroix, primitifs italiens composant la collection P.-A. Cheramy : 5-7 May 1908, Galerie Georges Petit, May 5-7, 1908, p. 24, lot 36, http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52508125j [Website]

Goupil, Goupil & Cie and Boussod, Valadon & Co. records, 1846-1919, Livre No. 12, Dieterle Family, Records of French Art Galleries, 1846-1986, Getty Research Institute, Accessed March 14, 2023, spread 208, row 3, stock no. 21472, https://rosettaapp.getty.edu/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1680214 [Website]

Sir Howard Hodgkin, Howard Hodgkin : paintings, 1992-2007, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 81-3, fig. 32, NJ18 .H647 A12 2007 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 112, no. 257, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA) [YCBA]

John Constable : a selection of paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969, p. 36-7, no. 33, NJ18 C74 U5 (YCBA) [YCBA]

George Dunlop Leslie, John Constable, R.A., Art Journal, Virtue, London, January 1903, p. 6, British Periodicals [ORBIS]

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, vol. 1, p. 28, no. 89, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Leslie Parris, The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, Book Review , Burlington Magazine, vol. 127, March 1985, p. 165, N1 B87 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Leslie Parris, The Tate Gallery Constable collection : a catalogue, , Tate Britain, London, UK, 1981, pp. 101-02, fig. 2, NJ18 C74 P374 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Graham Reynolds, John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837) : an exhibition : paintings, drawings, watercolors, mezzotints, , Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, New York, 1988, p. 41, pl. 14, NJ18 C74 R497 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 64, no. 20.91, pl. 206, NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Michael Rosenthal, Constable, Thames and Hudson, London, UK, 1987, p. 137, fig. 130, NJ18 C74 R683 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Michael Rosenthal, Constable, the painter and his landscape, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1983, pp. 160-63, fig. 199, NJ18 C74 R68 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ian St. John, Dedham : Constable country, Suffolk Walker, East Bergholt, 2005, p. 17, fig. 24, V 2535 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Basil Taylor, Constable : paintings, drawings and watercolours, , Phaidon, London, UK, 1973, p. 207, note 49, no. 131, NJ18 C74 T39 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

The catalogue of a centenary memorial exhibition of John Constable : his origins and influence : illustrating the various periods of his work, also the work of his predecessors, and his influence on the art of his successors : 21st April to 29th May, 1937, held at Messrs. Wildenstein's Galleries, , Wildenstein Galleries, London, 1937, p. 29, no. 47, NJ18 C74 T87 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, vol. 1, p. 15, no. 51, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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