The Storm, 1880, Oil on canvas, 92 1/4 x 61 3/4 in. (234.3 x 156.8 cm), Paintings, Pierre-Auguste Cot (French, Bédarieux 1837–1883 Paris), When Cot exhibited this painting at the Salon of 1880, critics speculated about the source of the subject. Some proposed the French novel Paul and Virginie by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), in which the teenage protagonists run for shelter in a rainstorm, using the heroine’s overskirt as an impromptu umbrella; others suggested the romance Daphnis and Chloe by the ancient Greek writer Longus
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