John Constable The Leaping Horse Royal Academy Of Arts Postcard

RA** This is a beautiful undated but modern published official postcard from Londons Royal Academy Of Arts for this great painting by Constable of The Leaping Horse from 1825 with artist details, dates, dimensions etc & Royal Academy Of Arts logo on reverse being the official souvenir from when exhibited unused and mint. 

The barge lowers its sail, the rope slackens and the tow horse leaps the barrier on the path. John Constable depicts a scene in Suffolk where he spent his 'careless boyhood'. He claimed that the Suffolk countryside 'made him a painter'.

Constable paid great attention to weather and he described this painting as a lovely subject, of the canal kind, lively & soothing calm and exhilarating, fresh & blowing.