The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen

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The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen

Artist	Philip James de Loutherbourg
Year	1788
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	134.6 cm × 198.1 cm (53.0 in × 78.0 in)
Location	Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen is a 1788 landscape painting by the French-born artist Philip James de Loutherbourg.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1788 having been shipped from Switzerland.^[4]

Today it is the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum having been acquired in 1886.^[5]

References

^ Evans p.81
^ Herberyt p.83
^ O'Rourke p.36
^ O'Rourke p.37
^ "The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen | Loutherbourg, Philip James de | V&A Explore The Collections". collections.vam.ac.uk. 1788. Retrieved 2024-11-23.

Bibliography

Evans, Mark. The Painted World: From Illumination to Abstraction. Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
Herbert, Stephen. A History of Pre-cinema, Volume 2. Taylor & Francis, 2000.
O'Rourke, Stephanie. Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

v t e Philip James de Loutherbourg
Paintings	Landscape with Animals (1767) Moonlight (1777) Warley Camp (1780) A View near Matlock, Derbyshire (1785) The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1788) The Grand Attack on Valenciennes (1794) Lord Howe's Action, or the Glorious First of June (1795) A Distant Hail-Storm Coming On (1799) Coalbrookdale by Night (1801) The Battle of Alexandria (1802) An Avalanche in the Alps (1803)
Related	Charles-André van Loo (master) Francesco Giuseppe Casanova (master) Rococo Romanticism Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Eidophusikon Portrait of Philip James de Loutherbourg

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