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"Waves" by Gustave Courbet has returned to the permanent collection galleries! Now on view in the New Wing, second floor.
And today marks the artist's birthday💐 — born in Ornans, France, in 1819.
🖼️ "Waves", ca. 1870, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 92.5 cm, Matsukata Collection
The sea was a world unknown to Courbet for a long time, as he had grown up in the mountainous regions of France. Beginning in the late 1860s, the painter began to engage seriously with this grand motif.
This work, depicting the stormy sea at Étretat in Normandy, was created around 1870. The churning sea occupies half of the canvas, and the dynamically rendered swells of great waves seem to surge forward beyond the edges of the frame.
Also on display on the second floor of the New Wing are Courbet's "Fox Caught in a Trap" and "Landscape with a Hunter."
Don't miss the powerful works of the painter who called himself "Courbet the Realist" — come and see them in the gallery!
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"Fox Caught in a Trap", 1860, oil on canvas, 81.5 x 100.5 cm, Matsukata Collection
"Landscape with a Hunter", 1873, oil on canvas, 80.5 x 120.5 cm