Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset

English Landscape and Watercolour, 1821–1822

This horizontal painting is filled with gray and white clouds against a blue sky. Wisps of white clouds are interspersed among banks of darker gray clouds against a pale blue sky in the top half of the painting. A tower of gray clouds to the left obscure a deep red circle, which only becomes evident upon careful inspection. Rays of pale shell pink streak down from the clouds along the bottom edge of the painting.
Artist
English Landscape and Watercolour
Date
1821–1822
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions
20.3 × 27.3 cm
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Licence
Public domain, CC0

Image description

This horizontal painting is filled with gray and white clouds against a blue sky. Wisps of white clouds are interspersed among banks of darker gray clouds against a pale blue sky in the top half of the painting. A tower of gray clouds to the left obscure a deep red circle, which only becomes evident upon careful inspection. Rays of pale shell pink streak down from the clouds along the bottom edge of the painting.

English Landscape and Watercolour