The Storm by Pierre Auguste Cot

The Storm by Pierre Auguste Cot has long been regarded, at least by Americans aware of its presence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as a symbol of late nineteenth-century French academicism.

Cots completed the painting ‘The Storm” in 1880 and was originally exhibited in “The Salon” in Paris.

The Storm is an elegant example of naturalism, and a blissfully romantic yet evasive reproduction of the stark sensuality that dare not speak its name in nineteenth-century French society.
The Storm by Pierre Auguste Cot