Pierre August Cot "The Storm"
 
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Original hangs is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC (originally painted in 1880)
Custom Framed in cream and red scrolled frame
Matted in white
Framed Size : 13" x 17" each
Image Size: 7.5" x 13.5" each
Framed in the USA
Hanging hardware included on back of frame
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The Storm
 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 827 
When Cot exhibited this painting at the Salon of 1880, critics speculated about the source of the subject. Some proposed the French novel Paul and Virginie by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), in which the teenage protagonists run for shelter in a rainstorm, using the heroine’s overskirt as an impromptu umbrella; others suggested the romance Daphnis and Chloe by the ancient Greek writer Longus. New York collector and Metropolitan Museum benefactor Catharine Lorillard Wolfe commissioned the work under the guidance of her cousin John Wolfe, one of Cot's principal patrons. Like the artist’s earlier Springtime (2012.575), it was immensely popular and extensively reproduced.
 
The Storm (La Tempête) is a painting by French artist Pierre Auguste Cot,  completed in 1880. Currently part the Metropolitan Museum of Art's  collection, it was commissioned from the artist in 1880 by Catharine Lorillard Wolfe under the guidance of her cousin John Wolfe, one of Cot's principal patrons.