Eugène Boudin Approaching Storm, 1864
View of Bordeaux, from the Quai des Chartrons
Eugène Boudin (French, 1824–1898)
- Date
- 1874
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Size
- 21½ × 35¼ in (54.7 × 89.5 cm)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1986.73. See the museum’s record
- Credit
- John L. Severance Fund and Gift of Mrs. Dudley S. Blossom Jr.
Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).
Palette
- #C2C1B8, 40 % of the picture, closest to Greige walls
- #B4B5AE, 26 % of the picture, closest to Sage Green walls
- #6A6862, 13 % of the picture, closest to Charcoal walls
- #42403C, 11 % of the picture, closest to Charcoal walls
- #95948D, 10 % of the picture, closest to Taupe walls
Closest wall colors:
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Hang it
Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.
- 24½ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
- Center
- 55½ in (141 cm) from the floor
- Above the sofa
- 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
- Ideal width
- 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
- Why this height
- Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.
Try it on your wall color
Default greige
Print it
No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.
| Paper | Filling the paper | Printed whole | Frame | Frame with a 2 in mat | Frame with a 3 in mat | Sharpness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 × 7 in | trims 14.4 % | 4¼ × 7 in | 5 × 7 in ready-made | 9 × 11 in custom | 11 × 13 in custom | 853 dpi, crisp up close |
| 12 × 16 in | trims 18.5 % | 9¾ × 16 in | 12 × 16 in ready-made | 16 × 20 in ready-made | 18 × 22 in custom | 374 dpi, crisp up close |
| 18 × 24 in | trims 18.5 % | 14¾ × 24 in | 18 × 24 in ready-made | 22 × 28 in ready-made | 24 × 30 in ready-made | 249 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 20 × 30 in | trims 8.3 % | 18¼ × 30 in | 20 × 30 in ready-made | 24 × 34 in custom | 26 × 36 in custom | 200 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 24 × 36 in | trims 8.3 % | 22 × 36 in | 24 × 36 in ready-made | 28 × 40 in custom | 30 × 42 in custom | 166 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 30 × 40 in | trims 18.5 % | 24½ × 40 in | 30 × 40 in ready-made | 34 × 44 in custom | 36 × 46 in custom | 150 dpi, crisp from a step back |
Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.
Download
Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).
- Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 337 px from Room Paintings
- Web image 1,263 × 761 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
- Print file 3,400 × 2,049 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
- Original file 6,090 × 3,670 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
- The museum’s record of this painting Cleveland Museum of Art
Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.
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