The Wave (Courbet)

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The Wave or The Waves is the title given to several seascapes painted between 1869 and 1870 by the French painter Gustave Courbet.

Examples

The Waves (1869, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
The Stormy Sea or The Wave (1869, Musée d'Orsay)
The Wave (1869, Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon)
The Wave (1869, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh)^[1]
The Wave (1870, Am Römerholz, Winterthur)
The Wave (1870, Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans)
The Wave (unknown date, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt)
The Wave (unknown date, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan)

v t e Gustave Courbet
Paintings	List of paintings Self-Portrait with a Black Dog (1842) Le Désespéré (1843–1845) The Happy Lovers (1844) The Bacchante (1844–1847) Portrait of Charles Baudelaire (c. 1848) After Dinner at Ornans (1848–1849) The Stone Breakers (1849) A Burial at Ornans (1850) Young Ladies of the Village (1852) The Wrestlers (1853) The Bathers (1853) The Meeting (1854) The Wounded Man (1854) The Wheat Sifters (1854) The Seaside at Palavas (1854) The Painter's Studio (1855) Madame Auguste Cuoq (c. 1852–1857) Young Ladies Beside the Seine (Summer) (1857) The Quarry (1857) The Hunt Breakfast (1858) Deer by Water (1861) Femme nue couchée (1862) The Source (1862) The Source of the Loue (1863–1864) The Oak at Flagey (1864) Proudhon and His Children (1865) Portrait of Countess Karoly (1865) The Black Stream (1865) The Fishing Boat (1865) L'Origine du monde (1866) Le Sommeil (1866) Woman with a Parrot (1866) Killing a Deer (1867) The Woman in the Waves (1868) Portrait of Paul Chenavard (1869) The Calm Sea (1869)
Painting series	Jo, the Beautiful Irishwoman (1865–1866) The Wave (1869–1870) Still-Life with Fruit (1871–1872)
Museums	Musée Courbet
Portrayals	Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Monet, 1865–1866)

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↑ "The Wave by Gustave Courbet | National Galleries of Scotland". www.nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 12 April 2025.

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