Approaching Storm
Medium
Oil on cradled panel
Dimensions
36.3 × 57.9 cm (14 3/8 × 22 1/2 in.); Framed: 61.6 × 82.9 × 9.6 cm (24 1/4 × 32 5/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
oil on panel
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27764
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This painting by Eugène Boudin, a Norman painter and Claude Monet’s teacher, exemplifies the artist’s signature style and subject matter in the 1860s. Monet would later follow Boudin’s practice of painting in the open air, the technique that gave this image of a beach for middle-class vacationers its vivid spontaneity and atmospheric light. This practice would be particularly important for Monet and his contemporaries, who came to be known as the Impressionists. Eugène-Louis Boudin painted many...