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A Foggy Sky, 1872. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 30 1/2 x 45 3/4 in. (77.5 x 116.2 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- A Foggy Sky
- Artist
- John Frederick Kensett (American, Cheshire, Connecticut 1816–1872 New York)
- Date
- 1872
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30 1/2 x 45 3/4 in. (77.5 x 116.2 cm)
- Credit line
- Gift of Thomas Kensett, 1874
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1816–1872
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.