Narcisse-Virgilio Díaz de la Peña, The Storm, 1871

 
“This brooding landscape was painted in the wake of the defeat of France by Prussia, at a time of national crisis and soul-searching. You can see it in that low, heavy, apocalyptic sky. Díaz had Spanish parents but they died when he was a child and he grew up in Paris. He was part of a pioneering landscape school who liked to paint around Fontainebleau, mixing emotional romanticism with rough on-the-spot realism. This is a haunting example of his poetic feel for the gusts and vapours of the changing woods and fields.“

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