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This small oil sketch was made by Constable as a preparatory study for a painting he referred to as "The Drinking Boy." The loosely painted reclining figure of a boy drinking from a pool of water is barely detectable in the lower left corner of the painting. The sketch was probably painted on site, at the edge of a footpath leading from East Bergholt towards Dedham.
The finished, full-scale version of this painting is in the National Gallery in London.
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