科尔切斯特附近的磨坊 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	科尔切斯特附近的磨坊
品名（英）	A Mill Near Colchester
入馆年号	2007年，2007.41
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	John Constable【1776 至 1837】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1833
创作地区
分类	图画（Drawings）
尺寸	页: 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 英寸 (14.6 x 19.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	约翰·康斯特布尔创造了英格兰乡村的共鸣形象。作为一个坚定的"博物学家"，他将自己限制在熟悉的风景中，拒绝理想化，但经常使用实验技术。这幅画创作于 1830 年代，绘画自由而强烈。山顶磨坊主导着构图，它的帆在狂风条件下被礁石笼罩。风的力量由前景树上的飞毛腿云和舞动的树叶暗示。为了创建布局，康斯特布尔查阅了大约十五年前在现场制作的草图。然后，他在密集的前景中添加了阴郁的色调，并与天空和背景中的薄蓝色水洗形成对比。用刀用力抓挠产生了闪闪发光的亮点，暗示着被雨水冲刷的形状上的阳光。康斯特布尔显然很看重这幅画，因为他给了艺术家查尔斯·罗伯特·莱斯利（Charles Robert Leslie）一份副本，以纪念后者于1833年前往美国。1845年，大卫·卢卡斯（David Lucas）用女中音雕刻了这幅作品，并包含在"风景的各种主题，英国风景的特征"的附录中。
介绍（英）	John Constable created resonant images of rural England. A determined "naturalist," he restricted himself to familiar scenery and refused to idealize but often used experimental techniques. This drawing, made in the 1830s, was painted freely and with intensity. A hilltop mill dominates the composition, its sails reefed in for blustery conditions. The strength of the wind is suggested by the scudding clouds and the dancing leaves on the foreground tree. To create the layout, Constable consulted sketches made at the site some fifteen years earlier. He then added somber tones in the densely worked foreground and contrasted them with thin blue washes in the sky and background. Vigorous scratching with a knife produced the sparkling highlights that suggest a burst of sunlight over forms washed by rain. Constable clearly valued this drawing, since he gave a copy to the artist Charles Robert Leslie to mark the latter's departure for America in 1833. In 1845 the composition was engraved in mezzotint by David Lucas an included in the appendix to "Various Subjects of Landscape, Characteristic of English Scenery."