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The Woman in the Waves

1868

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The story

Courbet's bather rises from the sea with her arms lifted, painted with realistic flesh tones and even a trace of underarm hair. The following year he began The Wave, a series of paintings of the sea on its own.

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Object details

Title: The Woman in the Waves
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Date: 1868
Culture: French
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Credit line: Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true).
Object number: EFA.0489
Original image: 2478 × 3000 px
Source record: View on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Gustave Courbet. The Woman in the Waves. 1868. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0489/