Paintings of the stormy sea from Baroque to Art Nouveau.
“The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.”
Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931
1. Abraham Willaerts (1603-1669), Stormy Sea, 1629
2. Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630-1708), Dutch warships in trouble off Gibraltar, 1690
3. Hokusai (1760-1849), Great wave of Kanagawa, 1829-32
4. William Turner (1789-1862), Snow Storm. Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, 1842
5. Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910), Clearing up – Coast of Sicily, 1847
6. Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900), The Ninth Wave, 1850
7. Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), The Wave, 1869
8. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), The Wave, 1879
9. Claude Monet (1840-1929), Stormy Sea in Étretat, 1883
10. Walter Crane (1845-1915), Neptune’s Horses, 1892
Featured image: Gustave Courbet, The Wave, 1869 – ©Public Domain
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