Philippe-Jacques De Loutherbourg Strasbourg, 1740 - Londres, 1812

Strasbourg-born painter Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-812) was a renowned artist, admired by his contemporaries in France as in England, where he settled in 1771. First landscape, battle and marine painter, he progressively devoted himself to all genres. As soon as the 19th century, he sank into oblivion, the critics recalling from him only his pranks, and his painted work, considerable, suffered from a long disrepute, because of the geographic scattering of his paintings.

This book, including a monograph and a catalogue raisonné, should allow to rehabilitate the work of one of the few artists who experienced success in France as in England.