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We stand on a beach lined with black rocks and boulders looking out onto the water below a brick-red sky that dominates this nearly square landscape painting. The sky along the top edge of the canvas is turquoise but it quickly fades to rich, salmon pink and then to deep red along the horizon, which comes only a quarter of the way up the composition. Steel-gray clouds ripple across the width of the painting. Two sailboats float in the water in the far distance. The water is painted the same turquoise of the sky with some reflections of the deep pink and red. Close to us, water breaks around the jagged black rocks beyond the a strip of mustard-yellow and tan sand that lines the lowest edge of the canvas. The artist signed the work in dark red paint in the lower left corner: “G. Courbet.”
Gustave Courbet, The Black Rocks at Trouville, 1865/1866, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund, 2011.51.1

The Black Rocks at Trouville

Gustave Courbet · 1865/1866 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2011.51.1

François van Bossuit, The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene, c. 1680, ivory, New Century Fund, 2003.1.1

The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene

François van Bossuit · c. 1680 · ivory ·  Accession ID  2003.1.1

Théodore Rousseau, Sunset from the Forest of Fontainebleau, 1848, oil on paper over black chalk or conté crayon, laid down on canvas, on stretcher , Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke, 2003.70.1

Sunset from the Forest of Fontainebleau

Théodore Rousseau · 1848 · oil on paper over black chalk or conté crayon, laid down on canvas, on stretcher ·  Accession ID  2003.70.1

This horizontal painting is filled with gray and white clouds against a blue sky. Wisps of white clouds are interspersed among banks of darker gray clouds against a pale blue sky in the top half of the painting. A tower of gray clouds to the left obscure a deep red circle, which only becomes evident upon careful inspection. Rays of pale shell pink streak down from the clouds along the bottom edge of the painting.
John Constable, Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset, 1821-1822, oil on paper on canvas, Gift of Louise Mellon in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1998.20.1

Cloud Study: Stormy Sunset

John Constable · 1821-1822 · oil on paper on canvas ·  Accession ID  1998.20.1

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Thomas Hart Benton · c. 1915/1920 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.144