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
Rights
Public Domain
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...