Gallery · Aivazovsky, Turner, Friedrich, Sorolla

Gustave Courbet

French painter, the principal representative of Realism in nineteenth-century painting, who rejected academic idealisation in favour of the truth of nature. In his late period he painted a series of dynamic seascapes with waves breaking on the Normandy shore.

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All Van Gogh 19 Impressionists 35 Klimt and Art Nouveau 39 Japan - ukiyo-e 27 Old Masters 33 William Morris patterns 10 Polish Masters 13 Avant-garde and Modernism 12 Nature and Botany 12 Landscape and Sea 12 Pre-Raphaelites and Victorians 12 Scandinavia and the North 12

Artists

Everyone Katsushika Hokusai J. M. W. Turner Caspar David Friedrich Ivan Aivazovsky Albert Bierstadt Frederic Edwin Church Winslow Homer Joaquín Sorolla Gustave Courbet