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The Pearl and the Wave (French: La Perle et la vague), [1] also known as The Wave and the Pearl, is a painting by the French artist Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry created in 1862. [2] The painting shows a nude woman lying on the edge of a rocky sea shore, with her head turned to gaze backward over her shoulder towards the viewer.
Throughout this early period Baudry commonly selected mythological or fanciful subjects, one of the most noteworthy being The Pearl and the Wave (1862). Once only did he attempt an historical picture, Charlotte Corday after the assassination of Marat (1861); and returned by preference to the former class of subjects or to painting portraits of ...
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Original – Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry's The Pearl and the Wave, described by Kenyon Cox as "the most perfect painting of the nude". Oil on canvas, measures 83.5 by 178 centimetres (32.9 × 70 in) Reason High quality scan of a notable artwork; I also think we should have more nudes Articles in which this image appears The Pearl and the Wave,
The Pearl and the Wave is an oil painting on canvas completed by Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry in 1862 which depicts a nude woman lying on the edge of a rocky shore as waves break around her. It was an object of curiosity when exhibited, and the artist Kenyon Cox described it as "the perfect nude".
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The Pearl and the Wave +2 FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings Creator Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry. Support as nominator-- — Crisco 1492 23:02, 26 June 2013 (UTC) Support per nom. If the colors are actually inaccurate, could be D&R-ed. Brandmeister talk 10:32, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Dec. 6—Imposing headlines blazed across the top of the Dec. 8, 1941, Albuquerque Journal, reporting the devastating Japanese attack the day before on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor ...