The Sea
Gustave Courbet · 1865 or later · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked public domain in The Met Collection API (isPublicDomain).
How this license was checked
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About this picture
The Sea is a public-domain painting by Gustave Courbet, dated 1865 or later. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The Sea” (1865 or later) gives an ordinary subject — labor, a funeral, or a local landscape — the size once reserved for history painting.
About the artist
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) was a French Realist who painted stone breakers, funerals, and the landscape of his home region at the scale once reserved for history painting.
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