“The sea! The sea!.... in her growling fury, she reminds me of a of the caged monster who can devour me.”

— Gustave Courbet

Quote from Courbet's letter to Victor Hugo, 1864; as cited by Sarah Faunce and Linda Nochlin, in Courbet Reconsidered; exhibition catalogue, The Brooklyn Museum, 1988, p. 188
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French painter 1819–1877

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