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.
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| 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 |
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]
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- O'Rourke, Stephanie. Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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