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James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
The Sea, 1865
Oil on canvas; 20 3/4 x 37 3/4 in. (52.7 x 95.9 cm)
Montclair Art Museum, Museum purchase, Acquisition Fund
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Whistler worked with Gustave Courbet at Trouville, the fashionable English Channel resort, in October and November 1865. He wrote to an English patron: "This is a charming place—although now the season is quite over and everyone has left—but the effects of sea and sky are finer than during the milder weather." In The Sea, one of at least five seascapes he executed at Trouville, he preserved the freshness of a plein-air sketch in a large canvas. A sailing yacht rolling through the waves at the right emphasizes the blustery Channel wind.
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