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Approaching Storm, 1864. Oil on cradled panel.
Oil on cradled panel · 36.3 × 57.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Approaching Storm
- Artist
- Eugène-Louis Boudin (French, 1824–1898)
- Date
- 1864
- 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.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.







