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A work made of oil on cradled panel.

Approaching Storm

Eugène Louis Boudin · 1864

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Palette

Pewter
 65% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.7:1
Iron
 16% of the image
Brown · text contrast 7.7:1
Mushroom
 8% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1
Stone
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.7:1
Charcoal
 4% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.5:1
Taupe
 3% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.1:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Eugène Louis Boudin
Date
1864
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on cradled panel
Size
36.3 × 57.9 cm (14 3/8 × 22 1/2 in.); Framed: 61.6 × 82.9 × 9.6 cm (24 1/4 × 32 5/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Place
France
Period
Impressionism · 19th century
Themes
Landscapes · Seascapes and the coast · Rain and storms
Main colour
Grey · lightness 47, colourfulness 7

Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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