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Creator:
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812
Title:

The Rainbow

Former Title(s):

Travellers Outside the Bull Inn, with a Rainbow in the Sky [1978, Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings, catalogue]

Date:
1784
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm), Frame: 45 1/2 × 58 × 3 inches (115.6 × 147.3 × 7.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed and dated, lower right: "P[h] De Loutheh | Bourg 1784"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.223
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
boys | bulls (animals) | carriage | children | clouds | coach (carriage) | cows | dogs (animals) | drinking | food | horses (animals) | inn | men | meteorology | pigs | puddle | puddles | rainbow | science | sign | tavern | water | women
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:733
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 150, 151, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 126-127, no. 123, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 42, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Olivier Lefeuvre, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg : 1740-1812, , Arthena, Paris, 2012, pp. 154, 238, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 246, 304, cat. no. 138, NJ18.L928 A12 L44 2012 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [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, pp. 8, 12, fig. 16, V 1392 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790, Penguin Books, Baltimore, Maryland, 1953, pp. 234-6, ND464 W37 1953 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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