The Sea

The impressionistic way of depicting a sea landscape is contrasted with a poignant sign of a human tragedy – a dead man washed up on the sea shore. This motif is of an autobiographical nature: the artist himself almost drowned near one of the islands of the archipelago Chausey. This is the only painting by de Laveaux in the collection of the National Museum in Wrocław, one of a series of sea images he painted in Brittany in 1891.