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Approaching Thunder Storm, 1859. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 28 x 44in. (71.1 x 111.8cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Approaching Thunder Storm
- Artist
- Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904)
- Date
- 1859
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28 x 44in. (71.1 x 111.8cm) Framed: 42 1/2 × 58 3/8 × 5 in. (108 × 148.3 × 12.7 cm)
- Credit line
- Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Erving Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1975
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1819–1904
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.