Tag: sea

Mer orageuse

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Mer orageuse (Stormy sea) s.d. Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Marine (1870)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Marine 1870 Oil on canvas, 66.4 x 82.9 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight 1835 Oil on canvas, 92.3 x 122.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Joseph Mallord William Turner excelled at capturing the beauty and mysteries of light. Cool, white moonlight…

Le Bateaux de pêche (1865)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Bateaux de pêche (The Fishing Boat) 1865 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet painted this work during an intensely productive visit to Trouville with James McNeill Whistler from…

La Femme à la vague (1868)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Femme à la vague (The Woman in the Waves) 1868 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 54 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1864 and 1868 Courbet undertook a series of paintings of the female nude.…

La Trombe (1870)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Trombe (Marine: The Waterspout) 1870 Oil on canvas, 68.9 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet first witnessed a waterspout at Trouville, a village on the Channel Coast, in 1865 or 1866. This…

La mer calme (1869)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La mer calme (The Calm Sea) 1869 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Courbet painted this view looking out over the English Channel during a visit to Étretat along the…