The Woman in the Waves, 1868, Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 21 1/4 in. (65.4 x 54 cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819–1877 La Tour-de-Peilz), Between 1864 and 1868 Courbet undertook a series of paintings of the female nude. He could not have failed to witness the triumph of Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) at the Salon of 1863, along with the popularity of similar representations by Cabanel's fellow academicians
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