- Title:
A Philosopher in a Moonlit Churchyard
- Former Title(s):
Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard
- Date:
- 1790
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 34 x 27 inches (86.4 x 68.6 cm), Frame: 40 5/8 x 35 x 2 3/4 inches (103.2 x 88.9 x 7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, upper center: “sign. | P.I.Loutherbourg1790”; upper center: "L 0644"
Signed and dated, lower left to lower center: "P.[?]De Loutherbourgh 1790"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1974.3.4
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1974.3.4FR
- Subject Terms:
- arch | bust | cemetery | churchyard | clouds | costume | death | fresco | genre subject | Gothic (Medieval) | grave | landscape | man | night | Picturesque, the | relief (sculpture) | Romantic | ruins | sarcophagus | skulls (skeleton components) | Sublime, the | theater | urn
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:165
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