The Haywain
ArtistJohn Constable
Year1821
MediumOil on canvas
LocationNational Gallery, London
About The Haywain
A bucolic scene of rural England with a hay cart crossing a stream. Constable painted six-foot canvases of everyday scenes, revolutionary at the time. The sky is the key, Constable said the sky is the chief organ of sentiment. Inspired the Barbizon School in France.
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