Approaching Storm  1864

This painting by Eugène Boudin, a Norman painter and [url=https://www.artic.edu/collection?artist_ids=Claude+Monet]Claude Monet’s[/url] 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...