The Leaping Horse

The Leaping Horse
The Leaping Horse
Artist	John Constable
Year	1825
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	129.4 cm × 188 cm (50.9 in × 74 in)
Location	Royal Academy, London

ArtistJohn Constable

Year1825

TypeOil on canvas, landscape painting

Dimensions129.4 cm × 188 cm (50.9 in × 74 in)

The Leaping Horse is an 1825 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable.^[1] It portrays a scene on the River Stour in Constable Country. A tow horse pulling a barge is shown leaping over one of the cattle guard barriers erected to stop cattle wandering. It was one of the large "six-footers" he produced from 1819 onwards.^[2]

It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1825 under the simple title of Landscape.^[3] It is now in the collection of the Royal Academy having been acquired in 1889.^[4] A full-sized preparatory study for the painting is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.^[5]

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v t e John Constable
Paintings	List of paintings Old Hall, East Bergholt (1801) Dedham Vale (1802) The Bridges Family (1804) Bow Fell, Cumberland (1807) The Church Porch, East Bergholt (1810) Flatford Mill from the Lock (1812) Boys Fishing (1813) The Celebration in East Bergholt of the Peace of 1814 (1814) The Mill Stream (1814) Brightwell Church and Village (1815) Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill (1815) Stour Valley and Dedham Church (1815) Golding Constable's Flower Garden (1815) Golding Constable's Vegetable Garden (1815) Weymouth Bay (1816) The Quarters behind Alresford Hall (1816) The Wheat Field (1816) Wivenhoe Park (1816) Fen Lane, East Bergholt (1817) Flatford Mill (1817) Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordon Hill (1817) Willy Lott's House from the Stour (1818) The White Horse (1819) Dedham Lock and Mill (1820) Harwich Lighthouse (1820) Hampstead Heath (1820) Stratford Mill (1820) Waterloo Bridge (1820) Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close (1820) Hampstead Heath with the Salt Box (1820) Harnham Gate (1821) Trees at Hampstead (1821) The Hay Wain (1821) Malvern Hall (1821) The Grove, Hampstead (1822) Hampstead Heath, with a Bonfire (1822) Road to the Spaniards (1822) View of Lower Terrace, Hampstead (1822) View on the Stour near Dedham (1822) Yarmouth Jetty (1822) Gillingham Bridge (1823) Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds (1823) The Lock (1824) Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath (1825) The Leaping Horse (1825) A Boat Passing a Lock (1826) The Cornfield (1826) Parham Mill (1826) Chain Pier, Brighton (1827) Vale of Health, Hampstead (1827) The Vale of Dedham (1828) Hadleigh Castle (1829) The Glebe Farm (1830) Helmingham Dell (1830) Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831) Englefield House (1832) The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (1832) Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead (1832) The Cottage in a Cornfield (1833) The Valley Farm (1835) Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1836) Hampstead Heath with a Rainbow (1836) Arundel Mill and Castle (1837)
Related	Charles Golding Constable (son) Constable Country Willy Lott's Cottage Portrait of John Constable Memoirs of the Life of John Constable

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