The Wave (Courbet) Explained

The Wave or The Waves is the title given to several seascapes painted between 1869 and 1870 by the French painter Gustave Courbet.

Examples

• The Waves (1869, Philadelphia Museum of Art)
• The Stormy Sea or The Wave (1869, Musée d'Orsay)
• The Wave (1870, Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans)
• The Wave (1869, Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon)
• The Wave (unknown date, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt)
• The Wave (unknown date, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan)
• The Wave (1870, Am Römerholz, Winterthur)