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Gustave Courbet
La Vague (The Wave)circa 1869

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Responses to Industrialization
Horizontal oil painting of a large breaking ocean wave in deep greens and white foam beneath a heavily clouded sky, with a small red-sailed boat on the distant horizon
Artist or Maker
Gustave Courbet
France, Ornans, 1819-1877
Title
La Vague (The Wave)
Date Made
circa 1869
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 14 1/4 × 24 1/4 in. (36.2 × 61.6 cm) Frame: 26 3/8 × 36 × 4 in. (66.99 × 91.44 × 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Emily and Teddy Greenspan
Accession Number
M.2020.94.5
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture