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Vahine no te miti (1892)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Vahine no te miti (Femme a la mer, Woman by the sea) 1892 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 74 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires The MNBA is fortunate enough to possess two paintings from…

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 From an early age, Gustave Courbet was interested in painting outdoors. In addition to wooded nature and large…

Marine (1870)

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

The Evening of the Deluge (c.1843)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Evening of the Deluge c.1843 Oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A butter-yellow sky fills the top two-thirds of this square landscape painting while in the bottom third,…

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 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…

La vague verte (1866-1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La vague verte (The Green Wave) c.1866–1867 Oil on canvas, 48.6 x 64.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When this early seascape debuted at the 1879 Impressionist exhibition, a critic remarked that it was “directly…