What did the calm sea say to the shore? Nothing, it just waved.

The Calm Sea

Artist	Gustave Courbet
Year	1869
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	59.7 cm × 73 cm (23.5 in × 29 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Calm Sea is an 1869 painting by Gustave Courbet. Done in oil on canvas, the seascape depicts a beach on the Normandy coast stretched out before the English Channel. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.^[1]

References

v t e Gustave Courbet
Paintings	Self-Portrait with a Black Dog (1842) Le Désespéré (1843–1845) The Happy Lovers (1844) The Hammock (1844) The Bacchante (1844–1847) Portrait of Charles Baudelaire (c. 1848) After Dinner at Ornans (1848–1849) Self-Portrait with Pipe (1849) The Stone Breakers (1849) A Burial at Ornans (1850) Young Ladies of the Village (1852) The Wrestlers (1853) The Bathers (1853) The Sleeping Spinner (1853) The Meeting (1854) The Wounded Man (1854) The Wheat Sifters (1854) The Seaside at Palavas (1854) The Painter's Studio (1855) Madame Auguste Cuoq (c. 1852–1857) Young Ladies Beside the Seine (Summer) (1857) The Quarry (1857) The Hunt Breakfast (1858) Fox in the Snow (1860) Deer by Water (1861) Femme nue couchée (1862) The Source (1862) The Source of the Loue (1863–1864) The Oak at Flagey (1864) Proudhon and His Children (1865) Portrait of Countess Karoly (1865) The Black Stream (1865) The Fishing Boat (1865) L'Origine du monde (1866) Le Sommeil (1866) Woman with a Parrot (1866) Killing a Deer (1867) The Woman in the Waves (1868) Portrait of Paul Chenavard (1869) The Calm Sea (1869)
Painting series	Jo, the Beautiful Irishwoman (1865–1866) The Wave (1869–1870) Still-Life with Fruit (1871–1872)
Museums	Musée Courbet
Portrayals	Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Monet, 1865–1866)

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