Art, literature & history
The Approaching Storm
1844
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching; first state of two
- Dimensions
- Image: 4 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (10.8 × 17.1 cm) Plate: 6 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (15.9 × 21 cm) Sheet: 7 3/4 × 10 3/8 in. (19.7 × 26.4 cm)
- Collection no.
- 23.65.69
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles-François Daubigny. The Approaching Storm. Charles-François Daubigny; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Approaching Storm — Charles-François Daubigny. 1844.
Medium: Etching; first state of two. Dimensions: Image: 4 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (10.8 × 17.1 cm) Plate: 6 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (15.9 × 21 cm) Sheet: 7 3/4 × 10 3/8 in. (19.7 × 26.4 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.