Who painted “The Storm”?

“The Storm” was painted by Pierre Auguste Cot in 1880. Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What to look for

Academic Art: smooth, glossy surfaces and idealised figures, usually from myth, the Bible or history; Realism shows ordinary people and Impressionism visible, broken strokes.

Pierre Auguste Cot (17 February 1837 – 2 August 1883) was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school. Wikipedia

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“Springtime”, 1873
“Mireille”, 1882
“The Bohemian”, 1871
“Little Girl”, 1881
“Portrait of Alice Heine, Duchess of Richelieu, Princess of Monaco”, 1874
“Portrait of a girl”, 1880
“Portrait de Madame Gervais”, 1863
“The Last Support”