The Sea
Gustave Courbet
1865 or later
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Dikran G. Kelekian Gift, 1922
Accession Number
22.27.1
Tags
CloudsSkySeascapes
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...