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Dark, nickel-gray clouds encircle a spot of bright blue sky above a river and forest in this horizontal landscape painting. The tops of the clouds are creamy white in the sunlight and steel gray beneath. The horizon comes about a third of the way up the painting, and on the land below, a tall, deep green, leafy tree nearly reaches the top edge of the painting to our right of center. More trees cluster around it on a spit of land that runs along an olive-green body of water. Along the shoreline, across from us, several wooden rowboats have pulled up to a low dock. One person holding a tall,…

The Approaching Storm

Constant Troyon (French, 1810 - 1865)

1849 · oil on canvas on board

National Gallery of Art · Chester Dale Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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