1794
oil
canvas
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen is a 1794 oil by Philip James de Loutherbourg, a Rococo painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen is an oil on canvas landscape painting by the French-born artist Philip James de Loutherbourg, from 1788.
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It shows a scene on the Rhine Falls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, near Schaffhausen, in Switzerland. Loutherbourg visited the country that year where he produced this work in the emerging style of Romanticism. After settling in London the artist became known for stage designs for David Garrick at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, while also producing landscape paintings. Loutherberg intended this painting as a rejoinder to those who had criticised his landscapes as too full of invention and not being direct studies of nature. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1788 having…
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Philip James de Loutherbourg, RA (born Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg; 31 October 1740 – 11 March 1812) was a French-born British painter who became known for his large naval works, his elaborate set designs for…
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