PIERRE-AUGUSTE COT The Storm Replica Painting, oil on canvas, signed C. COT in lower left, subject shows a couple sheltering themselves from a rain storm using the womans overskirt as a makeshift umbrella. In frame measures approx 28 1/2 x 20 1/2 in., ornate gold and green toned wood frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, not examined out of frame. The original painting completed 1880 by Cot is currently on display at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.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 heroines overskirt as an impromptu umbrella; others suggested the romance Daphnis and Chloe by the ancient Greek writer Longus. New York collector and Metropolitan Museum benefactor Catharine Lorillard Wolfe commissioned the work under the guidance of her cousin John Wolfe, one of Cots principal patrons. Like the artists earlier Springtime (2012.575), it was immensely popular and extensively reproduced. (MetMuseum.org)PIERRE-AUGUSTE COT The Storm Replica Painting, Pierre Auguste Cot The Storm, French art, romantic art, French romanticism, French classicism, the storm replica painting, Pierre Auguste cot style art, oil painting, oil on canvas, allegorical romanticism, neoclassicism, wall art, wall decor 7