Boats on a Beach, Etretat
c. 1872/1875
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 64.8 x 91.4 cm (25 1/2 x 36 in.) framed: 99.1 x 125.1 x 11.4 cm (39 x 49 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman
Accession Number
1972.9.7
About the Artist
Gustave Courbet · 1819–1877
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who revolutionized 19th-century art as the founding figure of the Realism movement. Born in Ornans, a small town in the Doubs region of France, Courbet came from a prosperous farming family with anti-monarchical roots—his maternal grandfather had participated in the French Revolution. This background shaped his lifelong commitment to dep...