Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Title:
The Evening Coach, London in the Distance
Date:
1805
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
29 1/2 x 46 inches (74.9 x 116.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "P.J. Loutherbourg 1805"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.219
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
hills | river | landscape | stick | people | peasants | carriage | horses (animals) | coach | man | water | dog (animal) | donkey
Associated Places:
Greenwich | Greater London | London | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Philippe - Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812) (Musee de Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, 2012-11-17 - 2013-02-18)Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31)The Noble Horse (II) (The Bunkamaura Museum of Art, 2000-09-02 - 2000-10-22)Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02)Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Canaletto to Constable : paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1998, opposite p.1; pp. 13-14, 99, pl. 37, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 152, 153, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 127-128, no. 124, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Exhibition Catalogue. 1806. 38th, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 38, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1806, p. 4, no. 36, N5054 A53 29-49 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 53, 164, no. IV.7, pl. 42, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 40, 48, fig. 36, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)Olivier Lefeuvre, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg : 1740-1812, , Arthena, Paris, 2012, pp. 99, 317-18, cat. no. 293, NJ18.L928 A12 L44 2012 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Musee des Beaux Arts de Strasbourg, Loutherbourg ( Strasbourg, 1740 - Londres, 1812 ):, tourments et chime`res : livret de l'exposition , Musees de la vie de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 2012, p. 15, V 1392 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 58, no. 42, pl. 122, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 79 (v.1), no. 276, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)The Noble Horse, From Pegasus to Thoroughbred , Television Tokyo Channel 12, Ltd., 2000, pp. 93, 133, English catalogue p. 19, no. 79, pl. 79, N7668 H6 N6 2000 (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 20 (v.1), no. 70, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)