Cloud Study (Distant Storm) ca. 1786–1806 Simon Denis Flemish This study shows a range of climatic conditions stacked one above the other. It lightens progressively over a space that extends thousands of feet, from the rainstorm at lower left to the clear sky at top. Denis’s plein-air sketches epitomize the Enlightenment’s embrace of empirical research in the pursuit of knowledge. The artist employed the particular effect seen here in finished paintings of?the 1790s, and perhaps Cloud Study (Distant Storm). Simon Denis (Flemish, Antwerp 1755–1813 Naples). ca. 1786–1806. Oil on paper.
Cloud Study (Distant Storm) ca. 1786–1806 Simon Denis Flemish This study shows a range of climatic conditions stacked one above the other. It lightens progressively over a space that extends thousands of feet, from the rainstorm at lower left to the clear sky at top. Denis’s plein-air sketches epitomize the Enlightenment’s embrace of empirical research in the pursuit of knowledge. The artist employed the particular effect seen here in finished paintings of?the 1790s, and perhaps Cloud Study (Distant Storm). Simon Denis (Flemish, Antwerp 1755–1813 Naples). ca. 1786–1806. Oil on paper. Paintings
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