Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812, French, active in Britain (from 1771)
Title:
A View near Matlock, Derbyshire with Figures Working beneath a Wooden Conveyor
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 5/8 x 57 inches (90.5 x 144.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left: "PI de Loutherbourg 1785."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.225
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
labor | rocks (landforms) | wooden | woman | man | workers | river | banks | building | house | bridge (built work) | stream | landscape | conveyor | barrel
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Derbyshire | Matlock | Derwent
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Philippe - Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740 - 1812) (Musee de Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, 2012-11-17 - 2013-02-18)

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
David Ainley, Blinded by Spectacle, Disregard for Human Labour in a Landscape of Joseph Wright of Derby, and a Painter's Respnse folloiwng modernism , Digital and Material Arts Research Centre, University of Derby, January 12, 2012, p. 15, Available online http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621637

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)

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 129, 178, no. V.2, pl. 105, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)

Olivier Lefeuvre, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg : 1740-1812, , Arthena, Paris, 2012, pp. 121, 249, 260-61, 262, cat. no. 180, NJ18.L928 A12 L44 2012 OVERSIZE (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, p. 12, V 1392 (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, Scene and Sensibility, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , April 29, 1983, p. 438, TLS Historical Archive
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:735