The Woman in the Waves

Gustave Courbet, 1868, Metropolitan Museum of Art

‘The Woman in the Waves’ is a work by Gustave Courbet (France, 1819–1877). It is dated 1868. It is part of the collection Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links the work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

It is made of oil paint and canvas. It measures 65 × 54 cm. The work belongs to the genres portrait and nude. The things depicted include woman, nudity, wind wave, and foam.

The catalogue has 249 more works by Gustave Courbet.

• Realism