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The Sea

1865 or later
Not on view
During successive sojourns at Trouville in the mid-1860s, Courbet fully developed the pictorial vocabulary that he used for his distinctive minimalist views of the sea and sky under different conditions of light and weather. This "sea landscape" (paysage de mer), as he called such works, may have been painted along the Normandy coast between 1865 and 1867, or it may be a later studio repetition.

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  • Title: The Sea
  • Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz)
  • Date: 1865 or later
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Dikran G. Kelekian Gift, 1922
  • Object Number: 22.27.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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