The Fishing Boat
Artist: Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
Original Dimensions: 25 1/2" x 32"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1865) "Courbet painted this work during an intensely productive visit to Trouville with James McNeill Whistler from September until November 1865; in a letter to his father, the artist boasted that he had executed "thirty-five paintings" in a very short time, which "stunned everybody." In his choice of subject, Courbet followed in the wake of Eugène Isabey, Johan Barthold Jongkind, and Eugène Boudin; but unlike many of the canvases executed at the time, this fishing boat, rigged and filled with equipment, is the focus of the composition rather than a subordinate element. In 1899, this became the first work by Courbet to enter the Museum’s collection." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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