The Woman in the Waves — Gustave Courbet, 1868

The Woman in the Waves, Gustave Courbet

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Iconclass: 61B1(+1)
Holder's headings: Female Nudes
Wikidata depicts: sea, woman, armpit, sky, night, female breast, nudity, nude, twilight, wind wave, sunset, sailing ship, nipple, foam, underarm hair, areola, sea bathing, nude swimming

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Credit: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Licence: CC0-1.0
Evidence: metmuseum.org collection api v1: isPublicDomain=true on object 436004 (read 2026-09-01)
Record: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436004

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