Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Title:
Coach in a Thunderstorm
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on millboard (attached to stretcher); verso: oil sketch
Dimensions:
16 3/4 x 24 inches (42.5 x 61 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.221
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
coach | science | men | meteorology | lightning | science | girl | horses (animals) | scared | tree | carriage | woman | fear | genre subject | frightened | road | cliff | thunderstorm
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28)

Life in England 1750 - 1850 (Paul Mellon Arts Center, 1990-03-27 - 1990-05-21)
Publications:
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)

Elisabeth Fairman, Roads to rails : revolution in British transport, , New Haven, CT, 1992, p. 12, no. 93, HE243 .F25 1992 (YCBA)

Olivier Lefeuvre, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg : 1740-1812, , Arthena, Paris, 2012, p. 347, cat. no. R. 9, R.9, NJ18.L928 A12 L44 2012 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:731