L'Orage

{{Short description|Painting by Georges Michel}}

{{Infobox artwork

| title = L'Orage

| other_title_1 = The Thunderstorm

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| wikidata = Q98207640

| image = Georges Michel 001.jpg

| artist = Georges Michel

| year = {{circa|1830}}

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| medium = oil paintings on canvas

| movement = Romanticism

| subject = Landscape painting
Thunderstorm

| height_metric = 48

| width_metric = 63

| dimensions_ref = {{cite book |last1=Breton |first1=Jean-Jacques |last2=Williate |first2=Dominique |title=Trésors insolites des musées de France |date=March 2011 |publisher=Flammarion |isbn=9782081242692 |page=18}}

| metric_unit = cm

| museum = Musée des Beaux-Arts

| city = Strasbourg

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L'Orage (The Thunderstorm) is a circa 1830 Romantic landscape painting by the French painter Georges Michel, depicting a thunderstorm gathering over Montmartre (then a village on the outskirts of Paris). It is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 937.{{cite web |title=L'Orage | date=3 January 2018 |url=https://www.fondationcustodia.fr/Georges-Michel#article31&gid=1&pid=6 |publisher=Fondation Custodia |accessdate=10 August 2020}}{{cite book |last1=Jacquot |first1=Dominique |title=Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture |date=2006 |publisher=Musées de Strasbourg |location=Strasbourg |isbn=2-901833-78-0 |page=242}}{{cite web |title=Orage. Paysage des environs de Montmartre |url=https://www.akg-images.fr/archive/Orage.-Paysage-des-environs-de-Montmartre-2UMDHUUWLCDO.html |website=akg-images.fr |accessdate=10 August 2020}}

L'Orage is considered as George Michel's masterpiece for its daring composition and its bold brushwork. It has been described as beyond anticipating Impressionism and Barbizon Realism, and as announcing the landscape paintings of Expressionists such as Constant Permeke, and Emil Nolde.{{cite web |title=L'Orage |url=https://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/oeuvre-musees-strasbourg/-/entity/id/220560 |publisher=Musées de la ville de Strasbourg |accessdate=10 August 2020 |archive-date=1 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230101133358/https://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/oeuvre-musees-strasbourg/-/entity/id/220560 |url-status=dead }}