It really did look like a Courbet and I had been looking through his but no luck so far.
Edit: Oh and it wasn’t the elephant head cliffs of Etretat, more like a rocky strand or a little bay. The shoreline curved inwards at the bottom left (with a rock the small shallow wave gently broke against) and the cliffs rose in the background on the top right.
I had initially thought Weymouth bay but it also looked a little like the Falaise d’Amont. But with some rocks at shoreline and on the sand. And it was more to the right of this view.
Yeah there’s 8 but only 2 are preserved from what I understand.
And lots and lots of practice! Painting over old canvas, over and over! Just constantly making paintings that aren’t perfect, until you can’t paint anymore!
Yeah maybe. I wondered that initially, if the larger central ‘rock’ was actually a small overturned boat. But I don’t think so.
I keep pulling up the mental image and it seems to be more like a flat angular rock with smaller ones around it. And there might have been one more skull.
It really did look like a Courbet and I had been looking through his but no luck so far.
Edit: Oh and it wasn’t the elephant head cliffs of Etretat, more like a rocky strand or a little bay. The shoreline curved inwards at the bottom left (with a rock the small shallow wave gently broke against) and the cliffs rose in the background on the top right.
I had initially thought Weymouth bay but it also looked a little like the Falaise d’Amont. But with some rocks at shoreline and on the sand. And it was more to the right of this view.
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Credit: https://www.lehavre-etretat-tourisme.com/en/things-to-see-and-do/visit/classified-natural-areas/the-amont-cliffs-and-antifer-valley/
Edit: The Monet isn’t quite the right style (there was a little more definition on details in the mystery painting) but the right sort of layout.
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Credit: https://www.meisterdrucke.us/fine-art-prints/Claude-Monet/1034922/Etretat:-the-beach-and-the-Amont-gate-by-Claude-Monet,-1883.html
The bones were very subtle looking scattered in among a cluster of rocks and at the base of the cliff as if someone had fallen.
or maybe a fisherman lost at sea was washed ashore
I asked and the painting was The Shore Of Oblivion by Eugen Bracht 🙃
There are apparently 8 versions (I can’t find them all) so maybe one is closer to what I had in my head.
The Shore of Oblivion are an amazing set of paintings! I fucking love them
I tried to find the versions but only could find two.
Damn, how does someone paint that good.
Oh, these ones are cool too! Also staples in the German symbolism movement
https://www.sensesatlas.com/isle-of-the-dead-five-versions/
Yeah there’s 8 but only 2 are preserved from what I understand.
And lots and lots of practice! Painting over old canvas, over and over! Just constantly making paintings that aren’t perfect, until you can’t paint anymore!
Yeah maybe. I wondered that initially, if the larger central ‘rock’ was actually a small overturned boat. But I don’t think so.
I keep pulling up the mental image and it seems to be more like a flat angular rock with smaller ones around it. And there might have been one more skull.