Stormy Sky over Landscape with Distant Church
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Jean-Michel Cels’s rendering of a stormy sky includes a notation of when it was painted—11 a.m.—in the lower left corner, underscoring the fleeting nature of time and of the specific atmospheric condition he depicted.
Caption
Jean-Michel Cels (The Hague, Netherlands, 1819–1894, Brussels, Belgium). Stormy Sky over Landscape with Distant Church, July 1838. Oil on bluish-gray laid chain paper, 6 7/8 × 11 3/8 in. (17.5 × 28.9 cm) frame: 12 1/2 × 17 × 2 1/2 in. (31.8 × 43.2 × 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Healy Purchase Fund B, 1998.26. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Artist
Title
Stormy Sky over Landscape with Distant Church
Date
July 1838
Geography
Place made: Belgium
Medium
Oil on bluish-gray laid chain paper
Classification
Dimensions
6 7/8 × 11 3/8 in. (17.5 × 28.9 cm) frame: 12 1/2 × 17 × 2 1/2 in. (31.8 × 43.2 × 6.4 cm)
Inscriptions
Lower left: "Juillet 1838/11 heures du matin"
Credit Line
Healy Purchase Fund B
Accession Number
1998.26
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