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Sudden Squall at Sea

François Biard

French, c. 1798–1882

Sudden Squall at Sea

1860s

Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 31 11/16 x 39 in. (80.5 x 99 cm)
Object Number 1955.643
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

François Biard, Sudden Squall at Sea, 1860s, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.643

Select Bibliography

Wees, Beth Carver. "From Silver Spouts the Grateful Liquors Glide." In Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

[M. A. McDonald, New York, sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, 19 Sept. 1942, as agent for Clark]; Robert Sterling Clark (1942–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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