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Marée Basse à Trouville (Low Tide at Trouville)
Artist: Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877)
Location: Walker Art Gallery
Date: 1865 - 1866
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 73 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,500 (Total: £7,000)
Vendor: Sir Alfred Chester Beatty
Review number: 2082 (1962)
Provenance:
E.l.T.Mesens; Sir Alfred Chester Beatty; On loan to the National Gallery since 1955.
Description:
In the foreground is a view of the sea from a sandy shore with a few ships in the distance. The horizon is low and the sky fills three-quarters of the picture surface. This painting may be dated to the years I865-6 when Courbet painted many paysages de mer at Trouville and became particularly fashionable, both for portraits and for sea studies. It may conceivably be identified with one of the twenty-five seascapes at Trouville mentioned in a letter by Courbet to Castagnary, dated 5 July, I869, as having proved a financial loss to him through the bankruptcy of his dealer Delaroche.
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