The Woman in the Waves is an 1868 oil on canvas painting by the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It shows a nude woman bathing in the sea, painted with realistic flesh tones, and is counted among Courbet's bathing and nude subjects from the late 1860s. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Woman in the Waves is an 1868 oil on canvas painting by the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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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. The picture is notable for its realistic flesh tones and t
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