John Constable was the greatest master of English landscape painting, which emerged by the end of the eighteenth century. His style was inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch painters, but his brilliant brushwork, capturing the variability of natural phenomena and atmospheric effects, paved the way for Impressionism and J.M.W. Turner. Brilliant colours, vibrant atmosphere, and a vivid overall effect rather than the details characterise this small picture of the celebration of the first Treaty of Paris in 1814, in the painter’s home village.
Benkő, Éva – Garas, Klára – Urbach, Zsuzsa, Ember, Ildikó – Takács, Imre (eds.), Old Masters’ Gallery Summary Catalogue Vol. 3: German, Austrian, Bohemian and British Paintings 3, Budapest, p. 142.
Pigler, Andor, Katalog der Galerie Alter Meister, 1-2. Museum der Bildenden Künste, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest. 2, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1967, p. 149, 400.
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