The Woman in the Waves
Painting by Gustave Courbet
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| Artist | Gustave Courbet |
| Year | 1868 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65.4 cm × 54 cm (25.7 in × 21 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Accession | 29.100.62 |
The Woman in the Waves (French - La Femme à la vague) is an 1868 painting by the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[1][2]
The picture is notable for its realistic flesh tones and trace of underarm hair.
The work is on view in the Metropolitan Museum's Gallery 811.
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Gustave Courbet
- List of paintings
- Self-Portrait with a Black Dog (1842)
- Le Désespéré (1843–1845)
- The Happy Lovers (1844)
- The Bacchante (1844–1847)
- Portrait of Charles Baudelaire (c. 1848)
- After Dinner at Ornans (1848–1849)
- The Stone Breakers (1849)
- A Burial at Ornans (1850)
- Young Ladies of the Village (1852)
- The Wrestlers (1853)
- The Bathers (1853)
- La rencontre (1854)
- The Wounded Man (1854)
- The Wheat Sifters (1854)
- The Seaside at Palavas (1854)
- The Painter's Studio (1855)
- Madame Auguste Cuoq (c. 1852–1857)
- Young Ladies Beside the Seine (Summer) (1857)
- The Quarry (1857)
- The Hunt Breakfast (1858)
- Deer by Water (1861)
- Femme nue couchée (1862)
- The Source (1862)
- The Source of the Loue (1863–1864)
- The Oak at Flagey (1864)
- Proudhon and His Children (1865)
- Portrait of Countess Karoly (1865)
- Le ruisseau noir (1865)
- The Fishing Boat (1865)
- L'Origine du monde (1866)
- Le Sommeil (1866)
- Woman with a Parrot (1866)
- Killing a Deer (1867)
- The Woman in the Waves (1868)
- Portrait of Paul Chenavard (1869)
- The Calm Sea (1869)
- Jo, the Beautiful Irishwoman (1865–1866)
- The Wave (1869–1870)
- Still-Life with Fruit (1871–1872)
- Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Monet, 1865–1866)
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