1864
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Approaching Storm is a 1864 oil by Eugène Boudin, a Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
This painting shows a beach scene with people and buildings in the distance, under a cloudy sky. The artist's use of light and color makes the scene feel vivid and spontaneous. This was a new way of painting at the time. To learn more about the method that gave this painting its lively feel, look into the technique of impasto, but a better fit is the technique of painting outdoors, however a more specific door to exit is the technique: glazing.
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 beach scenes at the fashionable tourist spots of Trouville and Deauville in Normandy. In them we…
Mrs. Meredith Hare (Elizabeth Sage Goodwin, later Elizabeth Sage Hare, died c. 1949) [according to AIC Bulletin 1939 she had acquired it at a New York Sale]. Maynard Walker Gallery, New York by 1938; purchased by the Art Institute, 1938 using Coburn funds [see minutes from meeting of the Committee on Painting and Sculpture, AIC, October 5, 1938].
Newport Art Association, R. I., Newport Holiday, August 5–19, 1938, (no cat.) [exhibition organized for the Art Association by Maynard Walker]. San Francisco, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor and The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Seven Centuries of Painting: A Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, December 29, 1939-January 28, 1940, cat. Y104 (ill.). Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art, Monet and the Beginnings of Impressionism: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, October 8-November 6, 1949, p. 17, cat. 12. The Burrell Collection, Glasgow Museum, Boudin at…
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Eugène Louis Boudin (French: ; 12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors.
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