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Cloud Study

1800s

England, 19th century

Medium
watercolor
Measurements
Sheet: 5.6 x 15.7 cm (2 3/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Prasse Collection 1980.108
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Many English watercolorists of the period were especially interested in capturing natural effects of the landscape, such as cloud formations. Such studies were of particular interest to the French Impressionists.
A horizontally oriented watercolor painting is divided by a dark, irregular band of deep red and blue-gray. Below, a wide, pale yellow wash with reddish dots fills the foreground. A small stroke of bright yellow punctuates the horizon. In the upper half, massive, billowing blue-gray and light gray clouds surge against an off-white sky tinged with faint pink washes.

Cloud Study

1800s

England, 19th century

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