Emil Hannover, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of C. W. Eckersberg no. 583.

Eckersberg writes about the painting in his diary:

12 April 1845: “Anlagt et lille Genrebillede” (Started on a new genre painting).

16 May 1845: “Arbeidet paa og er blevet færdig med et lille Genrebillede ”en Storm“. (I have been working on and have now finished a small genre painting ”A Storm").

25 August 1851: “Besøg af Redacteur Meier han kjøbte atter et par smaae Malerier ”en scene paa Gaden i Stormvejr..“. (Editor Meier came by, he again bought a couple of small paintings ”a scene from the street in a storm...". Literature: Philip Weilbach, “Maleren Eckersbergs Levned og Værker”, 1872, p. 235–236.

Erik Fischer, “Efter tæppefald”, in the exhibition catalogue “Nivaagaard viser Marstrand”, 1992 p. 84.

Erik Fischer, “C. W. Eckersberg. His mind and times”, 1993, reproduced p. 118.

Peter Michael Hornung & Kasper Monrad, “C. W. Eckersberg - dansk malerkunsts fader”, 2005, reproduced p. 364 and p. 362–363 (detail), mentioned p. 364. The two authors comment on the painting (in Danish): “In 1845 he carried out a painting in which he further varied the street scene with figures in windy weather. In the painting, which Eckersberg himself dubbed” A Storm“, he tried to paint a phenomenon, which no painters have previously painted, dust clouds swirl up from the street because of the strong wind”. A group of people is exposed to the dust and the wind. Two women have difficulty keeping their scarves on their heads and a gentleman tries to keep his hat on his head, while a little street urchin (gadedreng) is running after his hat.

Provenance: Acquired by editor Edvard Meyer (1813–1880) directly from the artist (see the above quote from the diary). The auction of the collection of Edvard Meyer, 1852 no. 23, with the description (in Danish): “Strong wind, a public square, 6 figures”. The collection of Willy Breinholst (1918–2009), author and humorist.