Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
Landscape with Boar Hunt

ArtistFrench, 1740–1812, active England
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Landscape with Boar Hunt
Datec. 1780
PlaceFrance
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions56 3/4 × 61 1/4 in. (144.1 × 155.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 1985"
Object number85.285
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
218 Blaffer Galleries
On view

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Provenance[Museum purchase with funds provided by “One Great Night in November, 1985,” from Galerie Cailleux, Geneva.]
Exhibition History"A Noble Pastime: Hunting Pictures from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," Ellen Noel Museum, Odessa, Texas, September 3–November 7, 2004; San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas, January 29–April 6, 2005; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, December 2, 2006–April 29, 2007.

Currently on view in the Library at Rienzi
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Three labels on verso, on strecher bars:

"Philippe Jaques de Loutherbourg, R.A. (1740-1812) 6 Landscape with a Boar Hunt and Waterfall."

"Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd. No. 41342 By appointment to his late Magesty King George VI Fine Art Publishers Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd. London, 43 Old Bond Street, Piccadilly, WIX 4BA"

"Expo: Des Monts et des eaux -Paris, Geneve, 1980-1981. No 19: Loutherbourg / La Chasse au Sanglier, Retour d'importation temporaire retour de 5.30"

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