Question

French Artists can never seem to distance themselves from the sea. For 10 points each:
[10e] This artist’s time in Normandy inspired the creation of many idyllic seascapes. This impressionist’s cataracts caused the hazy appearance of his late-career paintings depicting water lilies.
ANSWER: Claude Monet [Oscar-Claude Monet]
[10h] This contemporary of Nicholas Poussin painted a calm seaport in his Seaport with Embarkation of St. Ursula. JMW Turner insisted that one of his works be hanged next to this painter’s The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba.
ANSWER: Claude Lorrain [accept Claude Gellée]
[10m] Gustave Courbet’s (“goos-TAHV koor-BAY’s”) seascapes are grittier and more true-to-life. Courbet is better known for painting one of these scenes at Ornans.
ANSWER: burials [accept A Burial at Ornans, accept Un enterrement à Ornans ]
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