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The Smugglers Return
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (French, 1740–1812)
Title
The Smugglers Return
Artist
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (French, 1740–1812)
Date
1801
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
29 1/4 × 42 in. (74.3 × 106.7 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiesenberger
Object Number
1960.299
On View
On view
Provenance
Their gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1960.
Exhibition History
French marine paintings of the nineteenth century: twentieth anniversary exhibition, under the patronage of Jean-Marie Guehenno, representative of the Republic of France, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, March 16–May 5, 1985, no. 1.
Tempests and Romantic Visionaries: Images of Storms in European and American Art, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, April 21–August 13, 2006.
Joslyn Treasures: Well Traveled and Rarely Seen, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, June 3–August 28, 2011.
Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.
Published References
Michael Milkovich, French marine paintings of the nineteenth century: twentieth anniversary exhibition, under the patronage of Jean-Marie Guehenno, representative of the Republic of France, exh. cat. (St. Petersburg, Florida: Museum of Fine Arts, 1985), 27, (repro.).
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 68, 69–70, (repro.).
William Vaughan, Gainsborough (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002), 186, (repro).
George Hardy, Tempests and Romantic Visionaries: Images of Storms in European and American Art, exh. cat. (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2006), 16, 17, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 124–25, (repro.).
