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Marine : The Waterspout

Marine : The Waterspout






Date : 1870

Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Gift of Horace Havemeyer (1929)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gustave Courbet
Nineteenth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture
First Floor
Item 9 on 10
French Painting
Landscape

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France

Description   

The Waterspout depicts a tornado at sea, which occurs when temperature differences in the air create a whirling spiral of wind and water. Courbet painted several versions beginning in 1866, varying the palette and sometimes including human figures.
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