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Creator:
John Constable, 1776–1837
Title:

Somerset House Terrace from Waterloo Bridge [2001, The Paul Mellon Bequest: Treasures of a Lifetime, exhibition catalogue]

Former Title(s):

Somerset House Terrace and the Thames: a View from the North end of Waterloo Bridge with St. Paul's and Blackfriar's Bridge

Somerset House, A View from Waterloo Bridge looking towards St. Paul's and the City

Somerset House and St. Paul's from Waterloo Bridge [1964, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]

Date:
ca. 1819
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
6 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches (15.6 x 18.7 cm), Frame: 9 1/2 × 10 3/4 inches (24.1 × 27.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.93
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
boats | brushstrokes | buildings | cathedral | city | cityscape | dwelling | figures | landscape | river | riverbank | sailboats | terrace | water
Associated Places:
Blackfriar's Bridge | City of London | City of Westminster | England | Europe | Greater London | London | Somerset House | St. Paul's Cathedral | Thames | United Kingdom | Waterloo Bridge
Access:
On view at the Yale University Art Gallery
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38543
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Created by John Constable (1776-1837), the artist; . . . ; acquired by Paul-Arthur Chéramy (1840-1912), Rue Pelouze, Paris, France, by 1908 [a]; purchased at auction by Alphonse Kann (1870-1948) at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, May 5-7, 1908 (lot 31, ‘Le Pont de Londres’), in "Tableaux anciens et modernes…composant la collection P.-A. Cheramy” [1] [b]; purchased at auction by Jules Strauss (1861-1943) at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France, December 6-8, 1920 (lot 13, 'Le pont de Londres'), in "Tableaux, dessins, pastels…composant la collection de M.A. Kann" [c]; acquired by Alphonse Morhange (1893-1976); purchased at auction by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., at Sotheby’s, London, England, March 18, 1964 (lot 103, 'Somerset House'), in "Fine eighteenth and nineteenth century English paintings and drawings" [d]; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), April 6, 1965; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1999.

Notes:
[1] French lawyer and art collector, moved to England in 1938. No inventory was made for his art collection before he fled to England in 1938, and the collection was confiscated in 1940 by occupying forces. He only recovered a small portion of his large collection before his death in England in 1948.

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), 64, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62325352

[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. Cheramy. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52508125j

[c] Galerie Georges Petit. December 6-8, 1920. Catalogue des tableaux, dessins, pastels, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, des écoles anglaise, française et italienne ...composant la collection de M.A. Kann. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3207656

[d] Sotheby's. March 18, 1964. Fine eighteenth and nineteenth century English paintings and drawings. https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1709021

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]

Masters of British Painting: John Constable (Musée du Louvre, 2002-10-08 - 2003-01-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29) [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, p. 64, no. 66, NJ18 C42328 A12 M45+ (LSF) [ORBIS]

Constable : le choix de Lucian Freud, Petit Journal des grandes expositions, Paris, 2002, p. 10, fig. no. 20, V 1016 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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. 23, lot 31, http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52508125j [Website]

Galerie Georges Petit sale catalogue : Catalogue des tableaux-dessins-pastels principalement du XVIIe siècle, des école anglaise, français et italienne. . . composant la collection de M.A. Kann : 6-8 December 1920, Galerie Georges Petit, December 6-8, 1920, p. 16, lot 13, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3207656 [Website]

Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, p. 113, no. 266, 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, pp. 30-31, no.. 23, NJ18 C74 U5 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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, p. 20 [v.1], no. 65, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA) Also available on Microfiche: Fiche B214 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, pp. 40-41 (v.1), no. 19.37, pl. 127 (v.2), NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Sotheby's sale catatogue : Catalogue of fine eighteenth and nineteenth century English paintings and drawings : 18 March 1964, Sotheby's, London, March 18, 1964, p. 38, Lot 103, Auction catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 6, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (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, p. 8 (v.1), no. 29, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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