Before the Storm

1873

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 5 1/16 x 4 1/8 in. (12.8 x 10.5 cm)
Collection no.: 1972.744.18
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Ivan Shishkin. Before the Storm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Before the Storm — Ivan Shishkin. 1873.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 5 1/16 x 4 1/8 in. (12.8 x 10.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of the Humanities Fund Inc., The Boris Bakhmeteff Collection, 1972.

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.

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