''The Wave'' or ''The Waves'' is the title given to several seascapes painted between 1869 and 1870 by the French painter

Gustave Courbet Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( , , ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and ...

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*''The Waves'' (1869, Philadelphia Museum of Art) *''The Stormy Sea'' or ''The Wave'' (1869, Musée d'Orsay) *''The Wave'' (1870,

Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans The Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans is a museum in the city of Orléans in the Loiret department and the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. Founded in 1797, it is one of France's oldest provincial museums. Its collections cover European arts f ...

) *''The Wave'' (1869,

Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (french: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. Located near the Place des Terreaux, it is housed in a former Benedictine convent which was active during the 1 ...

) *''The Wave'' (unknown date, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt) *''The Wave'' (unknown date,

National Museum of Western Art The is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the museum and zoo complex in Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016. History The NMWA was es ...

, Tokyo, Japan) *''The Wave'' (1870,

Am Römerholz The Reinhart Collection formed by Oskar Reinhart is now held in a museum in his old house, "Am Römerholz" in Winterthur, Zurich Canton, Switzerland, as well as the Museum Oskar Reinhart in the centre of Winterthur. It belongs to the Swiss Con ...

, Winterthur) {{19C-painting-stub category:1869 paintings category:Paintings by Gustave Courbet category:1870 paintings Paintings in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay Paintings in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon Paintings in the collection of the Städel category:Paintings in Centre-Val de Loire category:Paintings in Japan category:Paintings in Winterthur category:Water in art