Constable

One hundred and sixty-five years after his death, John Constable (1776-1837) remains the object of a misunderstanding. In England, after having been an unloved artist, he has become a veritable myth, while in France, his reception oscillates between restriction and oblivion in favour of the more spectacular Turner.

By giving a central place to the artist's writings and their confrontation with his paintings and drawings, this book restores Constable to his central place in European Romanticism: that of a man who was as much a theorist - in his own empathetic, subjective way - as a practitioner. For the first time in a French edition, the collection of engravings conceived by Constable around the English landscape is presented, accompanied by comments on the plates written by the artist.