The Stormy Sea (The Wave)
Gustave Courbet, 1869
For now, just to look at
The photograph we have of this work is not sharp enough to print at the quality we want, so we are not selling it for now. We are looking for a better one.
About the work
- Artist
- Gustave Courbet
- Date
- 1869
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 117 x 160,5 cm
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris
- Reference
- XDV-1974
What the museum label doesn't tell you
The motif of the wave proved so successful that Courbet produced several variants of the same composition, now dispersed among museums in Paris, Philadelphia, Lyon, Edinburgh and Winterthur.
